The reigning expert on the state constitution, University of Virginia law professor A.E. Dick Howard, told me in April he “would be puzzled to be told [the governor] had that power.” ... “If it’s perceived as saying, ‘We lost in the legislature, but we’re going to do it anyway,’ that wouldn’t play too well,” Howard said in the April interview.Howard’s views are particularly relevant today because Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) hired him last week at $500 an hour to advise him on constitutional issues regarding the budget and Med...