state constitution

A City Paper story this morning on efforts to put an “English only” referendum on the Davidson County ballot this fall cites the state of Arizona as an example of a similar ballot initiative that passed easily.

I’m getting busy imagining weddings for my favorite couples.  ‘Coma, can we put Mabel in a tux?

I wonder how conservatives ever got elected before evangelical voters were manipulated to the polls by election-year ploys like this one:

Measure that could ban abortion on November ballot

There is an excellent analysis article in the Memphis Daily News today regarding the possible demise of Tennessee's current non-democratic method of selecting appellate judges - the so-called "merit selecti

California might not vote to enshrine discrimination into the state Constitution:

The Wall Street Journal points out that Tennessee is the first state ever to dump "merit selection" of judges after adopting that system.

Tennessee's anti-democratic Judicial Selection Commission has moved a step closer to extinction now that the state Senate has rejected a last-ditch effort to pass legislation to renew the commission's existence.

Several blogs have raised the question about the "constitutionality" of "The Tennessee Plan" and the ramifications of it ever being held "unconstitutional." (Bill Hobbs, Kay Brooks,

You'll find this at Bill Hobbs blog regarding the illegal "Tennessee Plan" of selecting Supreme Court judges: