On September 19, 2017, professional petitioner Darryl Bonner and Alaska Libertarian activist Scott Kohlhaas filed a federal lawsuit against the Alaska law that bans out-of-state circulators for initiative petitions. Bonner v Bahnke, 3:17cv-202. On October 20, the state said it would not attempt to defend the ban, and so a stipulated judgment and order was issued. Out-of-state circulators can now circulate initiative petitions in Alaska, and they are permitted to cross out language on the petition saying they are Alaska residents.
Alaska never had a ban on out-of-state circulators for candidate petitions.
An earlier lawsuit against the Alaska ban, Raymond v Fenumiai, filed in 2012, failed on procedural grounds. The out-of-state circulator-plaintiff in that case, Robert Raymond of Wisconsin, did not allege any particular initiative petitions he wanted to work on, so he was deemed not to have standing by both the U.S. District Court and the Ninth Circuit. But in the newer case, Bonner specified four particular initiatives he wanted to circulate, so he did have standing. Thanks to Ken Jacobus for this news.
Some century SCOTUS might detect that each State is a NATION-STATE.
1776 DOI last para.
1777 Art Confed
1783 USA-Brit peace treaty
1787 Const – Art IV and esp. Art VII
— States plural in all 4 documents.
IE Internal Electors versus FOREIGN Electors
The SCOTUS MORONS screwed up the 1st Amdt and internal Nation-State elections in the 1960s.
What’s next – having armies of real Foreign Nation-State folks claiming a 1st Amdt right to enter into the USA to circulate candidate and issue petitions ???
Another One Bites The Dust.