On October 15, seventeen states, all with Republican Attorneys General, filed am amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit in Florida Decides Healthcare v Byrd, 25-12370. The issue is Florida’s ban on out-of-state petitioners for initiatives. The states are Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. They argue that states should be able to ban out-of-state circulators.
Nine of these states don’t even have the statewide initiative process. One wonders why they care about this issue. Of those that do have the initiative process, only North Dakota has a ban on oout-of-state circulators for initiatives.
The Arizona legislature also signed the brief.
Each USA State is a NATION-STATE.
1776 DOI
1777 Art Con-fed
1783 USA- BRIT Peace treaty
1787 USA Const – esp Art VII — 9 states ratify
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They have candidate/party petitions, local petitions, etc. So, they have an interest in preventing alien invaders from defiling their election process.
Wouldn’t putting their heads on spikes at the state line checkpoints be a more effective deterent to any other such miscreants who would try to slither in to turn right around and crawl back home where they belong?