Republican legislative leaders filed suit yesterday to invalidate all of the tax, gambling and spending reduction bills approved in last month’s special session of the General Assembly. They argue that the Senate violated the state constitution by adjourning for six days without a vote of approval from the House of Delegates.

A clause in the Maryland Constitution says that: “Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, at any one time, nor adjourn to any other place, than that in which the House shall be sitting, without the concurrent vote of two-thirds of the members present.”

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