The Michigan Supreme Court ordered the Michigan Board of Canvassers to place the union-backed “Protect Our Jobs” initiative on the November ballot today, ending weeks of court challenges to the controversial measure. Organizers of the ballot proposal presented enough signatures to allow the measure to be placed on the ballot, but the Board of Canvassers had deadlocked on whether the proposal could properly be presented as a ballot initiative. Opponents of the proposal claimed it was too broad to be adequately summarized on the ballot to properly inform voters of the constitutional changes it would cause. As we previously posted, the Michigan Court of Appeals last week allowed the ballot measure to go forward. That decision was affirmed by the Michigan Supreme Court decision today.
The full text of the “Protect Our Jobs” proposal is available here.