BREAKING: Compassion Seattle has appealed a King County Superior Court ruling that tossed their Seattle ballot initiative on homelessness last week.
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The appeal is technically a motion to stay Judge Shaffer's ruling from last week, which said that changing the city charter to dictate spending and (in this case homelessness) policy is outside the scope of what city voters can do through initiative.
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Although some local media reported that Compassion Seattle said definitively that they would not appeal, as reported on Friday, what they actually said was that an appeal probably wouldn't come in time for the measure to appear on the November ballot.
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According to an attorney for the groups that sued to stop the measure, there will most likely be a hearing on the appeal this coming Friday afternoon.
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If the appeals court decided, for whatever reason, to issue a stay on the lower court's order, it's possible the measure could end up on the ballot as the appeals process continues. That said, the pro campaign can't change the ballot language itself given ballot deadlines.
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I believe August 30 not a statutory deadline, buy a goal date set by King County Elections.
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I can't help but notice they don't actually allege the decision was legally incorrect, just that basically it's not fair. That's a problem.
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