Ben Winslow is a reporter with FOX 13 covering a variety of topics including government, the Great Salt Lake, vice and polygamy.
Republican leaders in the Utah State Legislature will meet in special session to override a Utah Supreme Court ruling on citizen ballot initiatives.Late Monday, lawmakers announced they would advance a proposed constitutional amendment undoing the ruling by the state's top court. A unanimous court ruled earlier this summer that the legislature overstepped its bounds when it overrode a citizen ballot initiative.
'If it is advanced in a special session and passes the Republican supermajority in the Utah State Legislature? Voters would decide the issue on the November ballot.In July, the Utah Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision to strike a central part of a lawsuit filed by the League of Women Voters of Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government and a group of plaintiffs.
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