Citizens in Charge

Last week the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on favor of petition signature disclosure, but an article at Crosscut.com says there is certainly more to come in this case:

The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken, kind of. In what has been regarded, prematurely, as a victory for opponents of last year’s Referendum 71 drive, the court said on June 24 that, in general, the state doesn’t stifle free speech when it makes public the names of people who sign referendum petitions.

But in the specific case of people who signed petitions for R-71, who knows? The court sent the case back to the U.S. District Court to decide whether or not by requiring disclosure of the people who signed those petitions, the state’s Public Records Act has impermissibly burdened political speech.

Make sure to check out the whole thing, it’s an interesting read.