Court Opinion

ID: 9517413
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:16:20.411626+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:44:30.943638
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T. M. Kavanagh, C. J.
(dissenting). We dissent. A majority of our Court today has held that the Attorney General was correct in ruling that the petition proposing the amendment was not sufficient to place the amendment on the ballot and that the majority of the Court of Appeals’ panel erred in ruling that the petition was sufficient. Despite this conclusion a majority of this Court proceeds to create out of whole cloth a new doctrine called “Election Cures Errors.”
The people have the right to change their Constitution, but must do it in a proper, legal way. The rationale of the majority fails to satisfy either logic or law, and we reject it. We vote to void the election.
T. G. Kavanagh, J., concurred with T. M. Kavanagh, C. J.