Michigan SC puts pro choice measure on the ballot

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A 5-2 majority of the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a pro-choice amendment seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan constitution would appear on this November’s ballot, despite a challenge from anti-abortion activists that focused on the spacing between the printed words of the proposed amendment.

Michigan law requires only that ballot proposals be formatted in eight-point type, the court’s majority ruled — “regardless of the existence or extent of the spacing.”

“In this case, the meaning of the words has not changed by the alleged insufficient spacing between them,” the majority opinion added.

The abortion decision was a reversal from that of the Board of State Canvassers, where two Republicans refused to certify the proposed ballot measure based on the word-spacing challenge, deadlocking with the panel’s two Democrats and briefly dooming the pro-choice effort.

In one of two concurrences included in the decision, Chief Justice Bridget M. McCormack noted that a record number of Michiganders had signed petitions supporting the proposal, and that challengers hadn’t managed to find anyone who was confused by the word spacing on the amendment language.
 
floridafan said:
A 5-2 majority of the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a pro-choice amendment seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan constitution would appear on this November’s ballot, despite a challenge from anti-abortion activists that focused on the spacing between the printed words of the proposed amendment.

Michigan law requires only that ballot proposals be formatted in eight-point type, the court’s majority ruled — “regardless of the existence or extent of the spacing.”

“In this case, the meaning of the words has not changed by the alleged insufficient spacing between them,” the majority opinion added.

The abortion decision was a reversal from that of the Board of State Canvassers, where two Republicans refused to certify the proposed ballot measure based on the word-spacing challenge, deadlocking with the panel’s two Democrats and briefly dooming the pro-choice effort.

In one of two concurrences included in the decision, Chief Justice Bridget M. McCormack noted that a record number of Michiganders had signed petitions supporting the proposal, and that challengers hadn’t managed to find anyone who was confused by the word spacing on the amendment language.
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Its your home, Handjob, surely you have a comment.
 
so if passed in November, spelling and typing errors will be enshrined in our state's constitution.......the good news is, none of our public school graduates will be able to read them anyway.......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
so if passed in November, spelling and typing errors will be enshrined in our state's constitution.......the good news is, none of our public school graduates will be able to read them anyway.......
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There were no spelling errors or typing errors, but its gotta be a bitch cause your kind tried so hard to keep it off the ballot.
 
floridafan said:
There were no spelling errors or typing errors, but its gotta be a bitch cause your kind tried so hard to keep it off the ballot.
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sure there were......and the vote to decide if it would be on the ballot was 2-2......I guess your kind tried just as hard to put it on the ballot, regardless of how illiterate it was......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
sure there were......and the vote to decide if it would be on the ballot was 2-2......I guess your kind tried just as hard to put it on the ballot, regardless of how illiterate it was......
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I guess you didn't read the story as usual, the SC vote was 5-2. Not even close. I wonder why you have tried so hard to keep the measure off the ballot. Does Kansas come to mind?
 
floridafan said:
I guess you didn't read the story as usual, the SC vote was 5-2. Not even close. I wonder why you have tried so hard to keep the measure off the ballot. Does Kansas come to mind?
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pretty much a party line vote.....best we could have hoped for was 4-3........
 
Rather humorous, for the first time in quite a while the Democrats aren’t the party who are sidetracked and playing defense fighting cultural wars in elections
 
floridafan said:
A 5-2 majority of the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a pro-choice amendment seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan constitution would appear on this November’s ballot, despite a challenge from anti-abortion activists that focused on the spacing between the printed words of the proposed amendment.

Michigan law requires only that ballot proposals be formatted in eight-point type, the court’s majority ruled — “regardless of the existence or extent of the spacing.”

“In this case, the meaning of the words has not changed by the alleged insufficient spacing between them,” the majority opinion added.

The abortion decision was a reversal from that of the Board of State Canvassers, where two Republicans refused to certify the proposed ballot measure based on the word-spacing challenge, deadlocking with the panel’s two Democrats and briefly dooming the pro-choice effort.

In one of two concurrences included in the decision, Chief Justice Bridget M. McCormack noted that a record number of Michiganders had signed petitions supporting the proposal, and that challengers hadn’t managed to find anyone who was confused by the word spacing on the amendment language.
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That
Is
Fucking
Huge.

Michigan got it wrong. The court fixed it.
 
archives said:
Wrong, when Bret and the Trump Court handed the Democrats the abortion issue it is the GOP scratching and fighting to masquerade and define their positions
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After they all rushed to pass laws that will cause harm to women (and raped children).

They didn't have to overreact to the Court giving states the right to legislate.

But they did, and they will pay.
 
archives said:
Wrong, when Bret and the Trump Court handed the Democrats the abortion issue it is the GOP scratching and fighting to masquerade and define their positions
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just a reminder bucky......its demmycrats who are fighting to pass laws allowing them to continue killing their children......
 
floridafan said:
A 5-2 majority of the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a pro-choice amendment seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the Michigan constitution would appear on this November’s ballot, despite a challenge from anti-abortion activists that focused on the spacing between the printed words of the proposed amendment.

Michigan law requires only that ballot proposals be formatted in eight-point type, the court’s majority ruled — “regardless of the existence or extent of the spacing.”

“In this case, the meaning of the words has not changed by the alleged insufficient spacing between them,” the majority opinion added.

The abortion decision was a reversal from that of the Board of State Canvassers, where two Republicans refused to certify the proposed ballot measure based on the word-spacing challenge, deadlocking with the panel’s two Democrats and briefly dooming the pro-choice effort.

In one of two concurrences included in the decision, Chief Justice Bridget M. McCormack noted that a record number of Michiganders had signed petitions supporting the proposal, and that challengers hadn’t managed to find anyone who was confused by the word spacing on the amendment language.
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this should not be much of a shock. the SCOTUS allowed this crap with the passage of the 16th Amendment...................
 
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