Arkansas Bill to Ban Out-of-State Initiative Circulators

Arkansas State Senator Breanne Davis (R-Russellville) has introduced SB 614. It makes it illegal for out-of-state circulators to work on Arkansas initiatives.

Arkansas is in the Eighth Circuit. The Eighth Circuit is the only circuit that has ever upheld a ban on out-of-state circulators. It did so in a North Dakota case in 1999. However, so many other courts have ruled the other way, the Eighth Circuit opinion, Initiative & Referendum Institute v Jaeger, is widely regarded as having been wrongly decided. A U.S. District Court in Nebraska even struck down Nebraska’s ban a few years ago, and Nebraska is in the Eighth Circuit.

Circuits have ruled against out-of-state bans are the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth. A similar case is pending in the First District, from Maine.


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Arkansas Bill to Ban Out-of-State Initiative Circulators — 2 Comments

  1. I thought they already tried this in Arkansas several years ago and it got shot down.

  2. What little is left of each State in the USA continues to be a Nation-State.

    1-10 esp para 1, Art VII, 10 Amdt.

    1 Amdt perverted by SCOTUS in election stuff.

    See book –
    Sources of Our Liberties ed by Richard L. Perry (Am Bar Assn, 1959) — before SCOTUS went commie NUTS in 1960s.

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