well said seesaw. the biggest joke is libs sitting on a state funded judiciary claiming something is or isnt constitutional. a chicken with a lever is a more valid.

On a side note– what a GREAT week for liberty and the Constitution!

Freedom to Marry
ACA is Constitutional
Our President steps up to stop racism in a POWERful way!!!!

#The Ted is loving this!

When the initiative is to legalize murder, I say the AG has the responsibility to go to the Court to block it! She would have been derelict in her duty if she had not done what she did!

Read the article, SeeSaw. Note that I said “IF the AG is given the power . . . .” Some are trying to give the AG just that power to block “unconstitutional” props. Bad idea.

Moreover, the AG OR ANY OTHER PARTY should not be able to bring an action against a prop before it is ballot qualified. That gives anyone the potential to delay an initiative for months. Moreover, it would tack potentially tens of thousands of legal costs on to anyone attempting to file a grass roots initiative.

It did take the courts to block this Richard–an official or other plaintiff must bring a case first.

My being a Democrat is not a deciding factor in whether or not I will favor any particular initiative. I have a brain, and I will decide on my own after reviewing all the available information.

NO ONE doubts that this measure is unconstitutional, SeeSaw, but the power to MAKE that decision should rest with the courts, not with the AG, or other government official. Once that power is delegated, it’s all too easy for officials to let their own political agenda guide their decision-making. Certainly our AG has demonstrated this trait in her biased writing of the “impartial” AG Title and Summary of initiatives.

But then, you ARE a Democrat, and you DO want your officials to have that power. So it’s only right and proper that you favor the ability to block props before they start. I wouldn’t have expected otherwise from you.

As you so aptly put it — Duh!!!

If legal murder is not unconstitutional, then nothing is unconstitutional. Duh!!!

NO ONE would support this loathsome “kill gays” initiative (which would NEVER even make it on the ballot), it opens the door for government officials to unilaterally forbid any disliked “unconstitutional” initiatives from appearing on the ballot.

What’s “unconstitutional”? Well, whatever the government officials SAY is unconstitutional!

Yes, initiative backers can get that ruling overturned after an expensive and unnecessary court battle, but at the very least proponents would find their measure delayed a year or more, and smeared with an ‘official’ determination that the prop is unconstitutional.