The court's ruling: The decades-old ballot initiative law says that petitioners must collect a certain number of signatures from each of the state's 5 congressional districts. But since 2000, we've only had 4 districts. On this technicality, they neutered our initiative process.
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Correction on the first tweet: 68% of Mississippi voters voted to adopt medical marijuana in some form or another (65 or 65A). Between the two, 74% voted for 65. Thanks,
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Ocean Springs Mayor
@SheaDobson, a Republican who backed Initiative 65: “We will come back, and we will have a medical-marijuana process in Mississippi before this is all said and done. I promise you that."https://www.mississippifreepress.org/12260/in-blow-to-voters-mississippi-supreme-court-kills-medical-marijuana-and-all-ballot-initiatives/ …Pokaż ten wątek -
In Blow to Voters, Mississippi Supreme Court Kills Medical Marijuana and All Ballot Initiatives Story from me &
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Don't worry, if
#MSLeg deems the peasantry (us) unworthy of making change ourselves & doesn't revive ballot initiatives, we can always fix it ourselves with a— No, seriously, the MS Supreme Court killed the one means of recourse we have when our gerrymandered lawmakers fail us.Pokaż ten wątek -
Correcting this. I got my numbers mixed up. Mississippi's Supreme Court has 2 liberal justices, 7 conservatives. One of the liberal justices voted with the majority to strike down Initiative 65. The other liberal dissented, along with 2 conservatives, against the majority.
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This shit makes me so fucking mad! Same thing happen in Michigan. Voters decided no more appointed city mangers, but legislature over turned it. That's how the pipes in FLINT got destroyed & water poisoned! An appointed manager made the decisions.
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And they claim it’s a democracy
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Are these the "activist judges" that Trump warned us about?
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Is this unconstitutional?
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Wydaje się, że ładowanie zajmuje dużo czasu.
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