On May 26, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Schmidt v LaRose, 19-974. This issue is whether local election-administration officials can reject an initiative, even though it has enough valid signatures, because they don’t believe the initiative would be legal or constitutional if the voters passed it. The case arose in Ohio. The initiative concerned marijuana law. The U.S. District Court had ruled partially in favor of the initiative proponents, but the Sixth Circuit had reversed and ruled in favor of the local government.
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no cert for CA Voting rights Act law.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111649
WAR for REAL Democracy continues.
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One more DISASTER loss for Democracy — direct via voters.
It will be used by ANTI-Democracy gangs to keep multiple issues OFF the ballots.
This is mind-bogglingly stupid. This defeats the whole point of having an initiative process. At the very least the decision to keep an initiative off the ballot should be made by a court of competent jurisdiction not some random election official.
I guess the court just didn’t have the initiative to do anything about this!