The James Beard Awards are the Oscars of the food world, and Seattle has two nominations,

which means reservation wait lists are ahead. It's truly one battle after another. I'm Brandy Fulwood,

host of Seattle Eats. On the latest episode, Seattle Times Food Critic Tonvin and I break down the results

and help you nominate your next dinner.

Listen to Seattle Eats on the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcast.

TGIF, suns out as we wrap up the week.

And happy Passover and Easter weekend to the celebrants out there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning with the roundup of today's top stories. It's Friday, April 3rd. A Friday flurry of lawsuits to start the show, conservative activist group Let's Go

Washington is gearing up to sue the Secretary of State's office about the so-called

millionaires tax. State government reporter Sarah Mises Tan has more.

The constitutionality of the tax, which was signed into law just earlier this week, continues

to be challenged. The group put

forward a petition for a referendum on the law. That would essentially freeze its implementation

until voters had a chance to weigh in at the ballot box. But written into the law was a clause

that said the tax could not be subject to a referendum. Now the group is filing a lawsuit saying this barring

of a referendum is unconstitutional. The group is also simultaneously moving forward on a process

to file an initiative to repeal the income tax, another option that voters could see on their

ballots as soon as this November. This lawsuit follows another filed by former Attorney General

Rob McKenna, which alleges the tax goes against Washington's Constitution. In Olympia,

I'm Sarah Mises Tan. A second lawsuit to report, President Trump wants to create a national list of

eligible voters and bar ballots from being mailed to anyone who isn't on it. Washington's Attorney

General is co-leading a lawsuit to block that order. More from KNKX reporter Freddie Manares.

Trump says his order would curb fraud in vote-by-mail elections. He's asking states to turn over

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