On July 6, the Michigan Supreme Court said it will hear the case over whether an initiative to set up a nonpartisan redistricting commission can be on the ballot. Everyone agrees the initiative has enough valid signatures, but the Secretary of State wants to keep it off the ballot on the grounds that it improperly includes more than a single subject, and that it is a constitutional revision instead of just an amendment. The state court of appeals had ruled that the initiative should be on the ballot. The hearing will be July 18. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the news.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/07/06/michigan-supreme-court-redistricting-proposal-gerrymandering/764097002/
Michigan High Court to hear arguments over redistricting proposal
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The VNP scheme is a variant copy of the Cal gerrymander commission scheme –
ie scheme to elect more Mich Donkeys in pro-Donkey rigged gerrymander districts.
Par for the course of EVIL New Age schemes.
Mich SCT (nominal nonpartisan fiction) de facto controlled by Elephants
— under total pressure from top Elephants in regime and in big biz.
Quick judgment will happen due to printing of Nov 2018 ballots by about Sept 1, 2018.
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PR and AppV
This also affects ALL of the other 17 States having voter petitions for State const amdts.
IE — The gerrymander hack OLIGARCHS in such other States will claim that every proposed const amdt is a *revision* —
so can NOT get on the election ballots.
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MI SCT order —
http://courts.mi.gov/Courts/MichiganSupremeCourt/Clerks/Documents/2017-2018/157925/157925_70_MSC%20order_OA.pdf
How many amicus briefs coming from ALL of the usual suspects ???
The Mich SOS is one more Elephant super-hack robot —
tool of the Mich gerrymander oligarchs.
https://www.bridgemi.com/public-sector/michigan-justices-backed-opponents-redistricting-proposal-may-decide-its-fate
Details of the major partisan ROT in Mich.
The Mich AG is also one more Elephant super-hack robot —
tool of the Mich gerrymander oligarchs.
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Mich is 1 of the top 5 States which may easily produce Civil War II —
esp 90 plus percent black Donkeys in Detroit vs 90 plus percent white Detroit suburbs (about 60 percent Elephants — many escapees from Detroit and their children).
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/brian-dickerson/2018/07/11/justices-gerrymandering-case/776776002/
GOP justices face tough choice in gerrymandering case
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HACKS at work —
Obey the HACK TYRANTS or get purged.
Think of the Stalin/Hitler regimes in 1930s.