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Utah lawmakers now won’t pursue constitutional amendment to change ballot initiative power
Though previously Utah’s Republican state leaders said they were likely to pursue another attempt to change the Utah Constitution to ensure Utah voters’ ballot initiative power was “co-equal” with the Legislature’s power, they’ve changed course. That is, at least for this year. Now, instead of planning to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the upcoming November ballot, Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, said lawmakers will wait for the courts to settle ongoing litigation that pushed the issue to the forefront in the first place: a yearslong lawsuit over ...
