Arkansas court says it won’t change rules on ballot measures

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(AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected an effort to
make it easier to challenge proposed constitutional amendments placed on the
ballot by the Legislature.Justices on Thursday rejected an attorney’s request to change court rules to
allow challenges to be filed directly with the state Supreme Court over proposed
amendments referred to voters by the Legislature. The proposal would have also
required the same standard on ballot measures initiated by voters to be used on
legislatively referred ones.The attorney who proposed the rule change is an opponent of a measure
lawmakers put on next year’s ballot to limit damages awarded in civil lawsuits
and to give the Legislature control over court rules.

The court did not elaborate on its reason for rejecting the rule change
proposal.

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