While many in the U.S. have been focused on the actions of the Trumpadministration, said the group in a Thursday statement, legislators in over 15 states have introduced more than 100 bills to stop citizen-led initiatives from being placed on ballots in upcoming elections—and to stop them from becoming law even if a majority of voters support the measures.
The GOP tried that shit in Ohio and got smacked down hard by voters. It was asinine and brazen. I thought for sure it would galvanize voters against the GOP for such a huge power grab. For a time it did. The next election cycle a ballot measure enshrining reproductive rights including the right to abortion was passed by voters into the State Constitution.
“Critics” have apparently been sleeping since the sixties if they’re just noticing now…