Michigan SC puts pro choice measure on the ballot

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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The petition had shortened spaces between words. It didn't have spelling errors. This sometimes happens with kerning when publishing a document with r/l justification. It appears that some lines have the words squished together compared to another line. As the judges ruled, the size of the spaces don't affect the meanings of the words. That plus not a single person that signed the petition came forward to say the were confused makes this a no brainer.

The kerning of the petition won't be enshrined into the constitution. The words will be.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
this should not be much of a shock. the SCOTUS allowed this crap with the passage of the 16th Amendment...................
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I see you live in conspiracy world. The 16th amendment passed just fine when it was ratified by states. It is only conspiracy nuts that claim it was not based on idiotic writings.
 
Texas would never put Abortion on the ballot!

Greg Abbott lost the use of his balls when that tree fell on him!

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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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We also have another citizen-petition ballot measure protecting and expanding voter rights. I'm proud to live in this Free State.
 
Poor Richard Saunders said:
The petition had shortened spaces between words. It didn't have spelling errors. This sometimes happens with kerning when publishing a document with r/l justification. It appears that some lines have the words squished together compared to another line. As the judges ruled, the size of the spaces don't affect the meanings of the words.
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as one board member said......if this was a mortgage you wouldn't sign it......

That plus not a single person that signed the petition came forward to say the were confused makes this a no brainer.
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90% of the people who signed it have no clue how to read.....they're lib'ruls.......
 
SmarterthanYou said:
blah blah blah.............i'm pointing out that the controversy was about spacing and wording............get with the program
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What controversy was there about spacing and wording in the 16th amendment? The only controversy is the conspiracy promoted by those trying to not have to pay income taxes.
 
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