On 8 April 2025 a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court held that a Governor has neither a pocket veto nor an absolute veto over bills passed by a State Legislature, read Article 200 through the aid-and-advice discipline of Article 163, and prescribed outer time-limits for the Governor's and the President's courses of action. Using Article 142, it deemed ten Tamil Nadu bills to have received assent. The correctness of that judgment — the timelines and the deemed-assent device especially — was then referred to a Constitution Bench under Article 143, whose advisory opinion of 20 November 2025 disapproved both. This piece reads the holding and the live doubt over its finality.