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...legal challenge endorsed by the governor is a suit filed by the ACLU and other groups who allege that the referendum that won on Nov. 4 with nearly 53% of the vote is invalid. "It would constitute a constitutional revision, not a constitutional amendment and, as such, the California Constitution provides that it may not be enacted by initiative," reads the request for an immediate stay to stop Proposition 8 from becoming law. In plainer language, what the suit says is that because the gay-marriage ban so fundamentally alters the state constitution by taking away a fundamental right from...
Alongside the historic ballot for the Presidency, 36 U.S. states presented 153 ballot initiatives to voters on Nov. 4, according to the Initiative & Referendum Institute of the University of Southern California. Many of the measures tackled social issues ranging from gay marriage and affirmative action to prostitution and assisted suicide. Despite high Democratic voter turnout, not all socially progressive issues fared well in the voting booth. Here's how Americans voted on some of the most contentious issues...
...hard times, sacrifices must be made, and there is no painless way to eliminate funding for vital state services. But what is completely incomprehensible is that, in this climate of rising deficits and depleted social services, some misguided voters still support Ballot Question One—a Massachusetts referendum that promises to destroy one of the most significant sources of state revenue. Today, the ballot initiative will ask voters whether to eliminate the state income tax. We hope that they respond with a resounding “no.” The state income tax accounts for 40 percent...
...hoping that the Arizona win signals a cresting of the electoral push back against gay-friendly court rulings. But it's still too early to tell. A string of opinion polls shows that Californians are ready to embrace gay marriage. Of seven bipartisan, statewide polls cited by the Initiative & Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California law school since May, only one gives the advantage to supporters of Prop. 8. But that poll, by SurveyUSA, also happens to be the most recent; released on Oct. 6, it shows the anti-gay-marriage campaign ahead...
...constitution. The government said earlier this week that it would begin selecting members of an assembly to rewrite the current constitution within 120 days. The government's original announcement in April that it would change the charter, drafted by a military-appointed assembly and approved in a national referendum in 2007, brought the PAD back out on to the streets after it had been dormant for a year-and-a-half. Thaksin's opponents are worried the government is trying to rewrite the constitution in ways that will invalidate this verdict and the other corruption charges against him, as well...