On January 24, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a 2018 law that makes it more difficult to get statewide initiatives on the ballot. The law said that no more than 15% of the signatures submitted could come from a single U.S. House district. This meant that once a certain number of voters from a particular district had signed the petition, any more signatures from voters in that district were not valid. This type of restriction, for either initiatives, minor parties, or independent candidates, is quite unusual.

The law had also been struck down the by Michigan State Appeals Court on October 29, 2021.

The decision is not yet on the State Supreme Court’s website, but it will be in a few days, and at that time a link to the opinion will be added to this post. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the news. UPDATE: here is the decision.