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[8] The NOH8 Campaign was created in 2009 as a result of the passage of Proposition 8, which added an amendment to the California Constitution to ban gay marriage. Proposition 8 was effectively overturned in 2013 as a result of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to affirm a lower court's ruling on Perry v. Schwarzenegger. [9]
The Ohio state constitution is one of many within the United States that allows issues to be proposed directly to the state's population. The allowance of voter-led initiatives was written into the constitution by the Initiative and Referendum Process Amendment of 1912, [ 3 ] and since then, the official system for proposing additional ...
Legislatively-referred amendment: August 2023 Ohio Issue 1, which would raise the threshold for ballot measures to amend the state constitution, requiring petition signatures from all 88 counties in the state instead of the current 44, removing a 10-day period for curing of petition signatures, and increasing the electoral threshold for passage ...
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Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy last week ordered lawyers for the state and a group of abortion clinics to tell the court how they believe the measure’s passage has affected a case involving Ohio ...
Laws that are passed come into effect on July 1 of the year that act was passed or after 90 days, whichever was later. Remove legislative session end dates. Limit legislative sessions in odd-numbered years to 30 days and in even-numbered years to 60 days.
Republicans are doing everything in their power to restrict abortions by packing the Ohio Supreme Court. Opinion: Abortion burdens may return to Ohio. Who you pick for Supreme Court matters.