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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
The Arizona Supreme Court says the legislature needs to look at changes in the state's ballot initiative system to maintain its integrity.The Arizona Republic said Wednesday Justice Andrew Hurwitz wrote in an opinion released Tuesday the initiative process has become too large and unwieldy for election officials who don't have the time to verify measures for the ballot.Hurwitz...
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Enclave (Free subscription) | yesterday
Attorney representing El Salvadorian immigrant will argue that the ballot initiative if passed in January would violate his client's freedom of speech and freedom to petition the government.
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Submitted to a Candid World (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
If the Mormon Church thought all they had to do was bankroll a ballot initiative banning gay marriage, they were wrong. For the sake of Prop. 8 supporters, the Mormons better still have their checkbooks out. The California Supreme Court has agreed to listen to arguments from both sides of the Prop. 8 battle. The argument [...]
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Opponents argue that the ballot initiative amounts to a revision of the state constitution.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
The defeat of abortion-related ballot initiatives in California, Colorado and South Dakota "leads to the inexorable conclusion: Abortion is finished as a wedge issue, at least in the suddenly swing-state West," Laura Chapin -- a Democratic strategist and consultant for the No on 48 Campaign, which led opposition to the Colorado measure -- writes in a U.S. News and World Report opinion...
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California Divorce Blawg (Free subscription) | yesterday
From SFGate.com:The state Supreme Court plunged back into the same-sex marriage wars Wednesday, agreeing to decide the legality of a ballot measure that repealed the right of gay and lesbian couples to wed in California.Six months after its momentous ruling...
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TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
On the November 19 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Rose Tennent said of the nationwide protests that have followed the passage of a California ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage: "[T]here are so many people at the events that aren't gay." Co-host...
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Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
It was six months ago that the court had held the state ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. The opponents hit back with Proposition 8 that defined marriage only a union of a man and a woman, and the ballot won a 52 per cent approval. It was the turn of the supporters of same-sex marriage to maneuver their way out by appealing to the court to overturn the new proposition. By a 6-1 majority...
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The Bellows (Free subscription) | yesterday
... (and, of course, in San Francisco). And though Adler says that, “This was the only smart growth ballot initiative on the ballot; there weren’t other initiatives for increasing city transit,” it’s actually the case that several initiatives for new local transit investments in California were on ballots and passed. It’s very important to recognize that inter-city...
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Jennifer Roback Morse (Free subscription) | yesterday
Editor's Note: The following is based on a transcript from "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News," which airs on CNN at 10 p.m. ET Saturdays and Sundays. (CNN) -- More than a week after voters in California, Arizona and Florida passed ballot initiatives outlawing same-sex marriage, thousands of people across the country protested the bans in simultaneous rallies Saturday. In California, Proposition...
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2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear legal challenges to Prop 8, the California Ballot initiative that outlawed gay marriage. The vote was 6 - 1 in closed session. It is likely that arguments will be heard next March. The LA Times has more details .
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Iowa Independent (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... supporters of traditional marriage who will help protect Proposition Eight,” the recently passed ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage in California.
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The Brad Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a two-thirds vote by both houses of the legislature before going before the electorate as a ballot initiative. In a recent San Francisco Chronicle op-ed, Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmeic , who served as a high official in the Reagan and Bush I Justice departments but who supported Barack Obama this year, laid out a compromise to the constitutional debacle brought on by the passage...
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STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
An Election Day story with a happy ending has received little coverage in this part of the state. It deserves more.On Nov. 4, voters in Greene County — the state's 31st Judicial Circuit — approved a ballot initiative that changes the county's method for choosing the trial judges that hear cases in state court.No longer will candidates for those positions have to campaign like candidates...
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Media Matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the November 19 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose , co-host Rose Tennent said of the nationwide protests that have followed the passage of a California ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage: "[T]here are so many people at the events that aren't gay." Co-host Jim Quinn replied, "Yeah, they're guilty straights," to which Tennent responded,...
