The growing threat to ballot initiatives

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Important ballot measures are at play in the midterms. In some states, voters are being asked to consider limiting their own right to put citizen-sponsored initiatives on future ballots. Neil Volz, Chris Melody Fields Figueredo and Josh Visnaw join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:29.9	This is on point.
0:35.2	I'm Megna Chacrabardi.
0:37.4	In 1932, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Brandeis popularized the notion that states are a
0:44.2	laboratory of democracy.
0:47.0	He wrote that in a decision on a case that had to do with the 1925 Oklahoma law that made
0:52.2	it illegal to sell ice without a license.
0:56.2	In that decision, Brandeis wrote quote, a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose,
1:03.7	serve as a laboratory and try novel and social economic experiments without risk to the rest
1:09.3	of the country.
1:11.2	But what are the consequences when citizens choose something that their own local state
1:17.6	lawmakers do not want?
1:19.9	Namely, through the instrument of the ballot initiative, what happens when voters pass
1:24.8	new laws and regulations in their state that governors and local polls just don't like?
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