I-747

May 23, 2008 - 10:21am

Activist Judges Overturn Voters

By Wally Edge
Category: Local Tags: Tim Eyman, Judge, union, Hanford, I-297, court, I-747, I-722, I-134

Those activist judges are always disregarding the will of the voters and overturning our initiatives, right? Wrong. In slightly over a decade, courts have overturned voter-approved initiatives five times. In four of those cases, the legislature immediately stepped in and passed legislation to reinstate the will of the voters, thereby overruling the courts.

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