FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — In a harsh rebuke of the Legislature, the Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down a pension increase that legislators quietly gave themselves three years ago.

The court called the pension increase "deliberately surreptitious" and said the legislation was "unintelligible," thus violating the Kentucky Constitution.

At issue was a vaguely worded amendment that legislators inserted into a public retirement bill in 2000. Justices said it was filled with flaws, and they pointed out the sponsor's later admission in which he said "it was our intent to not make the provision of the amendment so visible."

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