I have said on numerous occasions that the vote means little to politicians anymore…..and Mississippi proves my point.
Recently there was an initiative that the Mississippi voter approved of the sale of medical marijuana…..a win right?
Maybe elsewhere but not in Mississippi…..
In a brutal loss for direct democracy in Mississippi, the state’s supreme court struck down a ballot amendment on Friday that legalized medical marijuana in the state. But the ruling didn’t stop there. Invoking a technical flaw in the law, the court invalidated the entire process for amending the state’s constitution by popular vote.
“The killing of our ballot initiative process means that Mississippi is, definitively, the state with the least democracy, the most restricted ballot access, and where voters’ voices matter least when it comes to the deciding our future,” said Ashton Pittman, a reporter at the Mississippi Free Press.
“The Mississippi Supreme Court just overturned the will of the people of Mississippi,” read a statement from Medical Marijuana MS, which organized Initiative 65 that would legalize the use of the drug. “Patients will now continue the suffering that so many Mississippians voted to end.”
About 73 percent of voters supporter legalizing medical marijuana, according to Pittman.
At the heart of the court’s decision is a crucial flaw in the process that gives voters the power to amend the constitution by popular vote. According to the law, organizers for ballot measures have to collect signatures from the five different congressional districts in the state. But since the 2000 census, Mississippi dropped from having five districts to having only four.
https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/mississippi-supreme-court/
This is what you get when party politics is a decider on judges.
I continue to be a critic of voting as it is today…..
The people’s will means NOTHING to partisan politicians.
If it happened in Mississippi then it can happen elsewhere……..beware!
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We have similar interference in democracy. Even when there was a majority vote to leave the EU, it was dragged out by being challenged in court, and delayed in parliament. From the vote in 2016, it took over four years to happen.
Best wishes, Pete.
Like I said the people’s voice, the vote, means little chuq
The political class doesn’t care to share power with the dirty plebs.
And that says it all…we are the unwashed masses to them chuq
Is there any further recourse that can be taken on behalf of the voters chuq?
So for no…but some will try chuq
All the Supreme Courts seem to have a desire to replace the Executive Branch of government. And I guess the common folks out there will just have to pay down, roll over and suck it all up.
Yep since they the Courts make the rules….kinda pathetic and dangerous chuq
Wave of the future — unless Trump gets elected again and then we will have to take some cues from early Nuremberg …put up the torchlight poles and what not.
This ‘future’ is common in Mississippi chuq
I really liked Biloxi when I was there for 6 months.
Not the same place anymore. Not much but casinos nowadays. chuq
I usually relate well to casinos providing their food is great.
Not here…the buffets suck and the dine in is not all that good either. chuq
Sumptuous chef-prepared food is one of the reasons that I go to casinos in the first place. Are your casinos mostly low-pay-out, low-risk establishments?
Casinos are for those with no taste buds….at least down here. chuq
Another example of republiKKKan Nazi policies at work.
Seems so but it has been going on for decades….time for it to end. chuq