On March 19, the Ninth Circuit determined that it will hear Raymond v Fenumiai, 13-35090. The Ninth Circuit determined the case is not appropriate for mediation. The issue is Alaska’s ban on out-of-state circulators for initiative petitions. The U.S. District Court, on February 8, 2013, had held that the plaintiff, Robert Raymond, lacks standing. He is a professional petitioner who complained that he would work in Alaska, except that because he is not a resident of Alaska, he can’t. The U.S. District Court said because he didn’t specify any particular initiative that he wants to work on, his complaint is too vague to be viable. Alaska says it will enforce the requirement, but the only penalty is that any signatures he collects will be invalid. Raymond will argue in the 9th circuit that he does have standing.
Cases challenging residency requirements for circulators are pending in Alaska, California, and Virginia. A potential lawsuit in Maine has probably been averted. Portland, Maine, won’t let non-residents circulate, but various Maine Greens, some of whom don’t live in Portland, desire to circulate a city initiative petition. It seems likely that the city will soon repeal the circulator residency requirement.
There really needs to be law suits like this filed in Maine (I&R), Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan (I&R), North Dakota (I&R), South Dakota (I&R), Montana (I&R), Wyoming (I&R), and anywhere else that has these ridiculous and unconstitutional limits on who can circulate a petition on the books.
Regardless of ALL of the New Age politically correct MORON stuff —
each State happens to be a NATION-State
1776 DOI last para.
1777 Arts. Confed.
1783 USA-UK Peace Treaty
1787 Const Art VII, Art. I, Sec. 10
IE — Electors in a State – ALL other folks in such State, other States and other nations are *aliens* from another universe — regarding the *politics* in such State.
Much too difficult for the MORON courts to understand.
“IE — Electors in a State – ALL other folks in such State, other States and other nations are *aliens* from another universe — reIE — Electors in a State – ALL other folks in such State, other States and other nations are *aliens* from another universe — regarding the *politics* in such State.regarding the *politics* in such State.”
Asking somebody to sign a petition is not the same thing as voting, it is free speech. We don’t give up our right to free speech when we travel to different states.