Lawsuit filed over Utah ballot initiative changes
FOX 13
and last updated 2021-05-12 17:37:29-04
SALT LAKE CITY â A lawsuit has been filed challenging new laws regulating how ballot initiatives get before voters.
Steve Maxfield, Daniel Newby and Lori Newby,
who have sued the state over citizen referendum and ballot initiative laws in the past, filed a new lawsuit against Governor Spencer Cox and Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson this week. They argue the Utah State Legislature s latest changes to the ballot initiative process chill their freedom of speech (under the law, the legislature cannot be sued so the governor is as a representative of the state).