Supreme Court just vacated the stay in the Yost Case. This is the one where OH AG Yost was gatekeeping all constitutional initiatives that he didn't like under the guise of the summary being misleading. The 6th Circuit stopped him, Kavanaugh stayed the decision and the Court just vacated the stay. Now the initiative in question-removing …
Supreme Court just vacated the stay in the Yost Case. This is the one where OH AG Yost was gatekeeping all constitutional initiatives that he didn't like under the guise of the summary being misleading. The 6th Circuit stopped him, Kavanaugh stayed the decision and the Court just vacated the stay. Now the initiative in question-removing qualified immunity for state actions will go forward. https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24a970.html.
Is that a good thing? I don't know if that would prevent Ohio legislators from deliberately distorting or misleading ballot summaries for future voter initiatives, like they did with the anti-gerrymandering one last year (which failed) and the abortion one in 2023 (which passed).
Supreme Court just vacated the stay in the Yost Case. This is the one where OH AG Yost was gatekeeping all constitutional initiatives that he didn't like under the guise of the summary being misleading. The 6th Circuit stopped him, Kavanaugh stayed the decision and the Court just vacated the stay. Now the initiative in question-removing qualified immunity for state actions will go forward. https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24a970.html.
Is that a good thing? I don't know if that would prevent Ohio legislators from deliberately distorting or misleading ballot summaries for future voter initiatives, like they did with the anti-gerrymandering one last year (which failed) and the abortion one in 2023 (which passed).