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N.D. (AP) — Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says he’ll personally defend Gov. Doug Burgum against a lawsuit filed by the Republican-led Legislature challenging the Republican governor’s veto powers.

Stenehjem tells The Associated Press that he will base his state Supreme Court argument on a previous opinion he authored in June that actually favors the Legislature on much of the vetoes — but not all.

Stenehjem says he’s talked to Burgum and the two agree on their legal position.

Stenehjem lost to Burgum in a hotly contested Republican primary for governor last year. He also is a former state senator, and during the 1995 Legislature, he sponsored a rewrite of the state Constitution that included a new section on a governor’s veto power.