Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s (R) chief legal counsel “has told the Legislature’s watchdog agency that it doesn’t have the constitutional authority to investigate whether the governor exceeded his executive power when he threatened to withhold state funding from a private nonprofit unless it withdraw a job offer to Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves,” the Portland Press Herald reports.
LePage Says Legislature Cannot Investigate Him
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