Kentucky’s Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear announced on Monday he had filed suit against Republican Gov. Matt Bevin over the governor’s recent order imposing an immediate 4.5 percent funding cut to state colleges and universities.
The cut amounts to some $41 million in spending reductions from what the General Assembly had agreed to in a previous budget.
Beshear called Bevin’s March 31 order “unconstitutional and illegal.”
The Bevin administration has said state law supports his order to make the cuts unilaterally.