Veto season has officially begun.
In his first two vetoes since taking office, Gov. Ralph Northam has rejected bills that would have made it harder for fast-food workers to unionize and would have imposed limits on fees paid by the attorney general’s office to outside lawyers brought in to help on big cases.
Both bills passed the Republican-controlled General Assembly on party-line votes. Because it takes a two-thirds vote to override a veto, Democratic minorities in the House of Delegates and Senate have the numbers to uphold Northam’s vetoes.
