‘Democracy Dies Blow By Blow’: How Mississippi’s Supreme Court Killed the Ballot Initiative Twice in 99 Years
A group of voters is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to allow them to intervene for a rehearing in Watson v. Butler and to reconsider its decision to strike down Initiative 65, the voter-approved medical marijuana law, and to revive the state’s ballot initiative law, which a 6-3 majority of justices nullified as part of its ruling.