On August 24, South Dakota asked the Eighth Circuit to rehear Dakotans for Health v Johnson, 25-2940. This is the lawsuit over the petition deadline for initiatives. The Eighth Circuit on August 11 had struck down the February deadline.
On August 24, South Dakota asked the Eighth Circuit to rehear Dakotans for Health v Johnson, 25-2940. This is the lawsuit over the petition deadline for initiatives. The Eighth Circuit on August 11 had struck down the February deadline.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/breaking-scotus-orders-michigan-respond-174800084.html
MICH — SAMPLE FOR SIGS – ISSUE PETITION
The February deadline should be upheld. This should not be a federal matter at all. Initiative votes shouldn’t exist, but so long as they do exist, qualifying them should be as difficult as possible. It’s beyond absurd for the federal government to regulate state rules for qualifying ballot issues. If they can do that, wouldn’t logic also require states to adopt the initiative and referendum process at the direction of federal courts? And I certainly hope that’s never allowed.