Possibly more to come from Washington signature disclosure 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.