The 65 bills are already law, they say, but the governor disagrees and is headed to court. Meanwhile, a key land-conservation bond veto is sustained.

He wants justices to issue an opinion on deadlines for acting on bills – and whether 70 measures have become law – but the Legislature is likely to adjourn before the court rules.

If Maine’s Supreme Court rules that Gov. Paul LePage failed to veto the immigrant aid bill on time, three lawmakers and an activist say they’ll try to kill it at the ballot box.

Republicans and Democrats watched some key policy initiatives fail, but packed priorities into the state budget.

Legislators override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the two-year, $6.7 billion plan, which contains modest property and income tax cuts.