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Published two years ago on the sad event of Justin’s death.
“Don’t do what I did when I was your age – a lot of running around. Instead, read and learn as much as you can so you’re prepared to effectively fight for peace and liberty.”
This sounds like the advice Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul gives young people, but it was advice given to me when I was a young lad of 25 by my friend Justin Raimondo. Justin passed away last week from lung cancer at the age of 67.
Most of you probably know Justin from his column on Antiwar.com, the website he co-founded with longtime friend and collaborator Eric Garris in 1995. But Justin had a long history of supporting the libertarian movement, starting in the late seventies when he worked for The CATO Institute’s Libertarian Review and Students for a Libertarian Society.
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On February 12, the Attorney General said that he will not appeal the decision. The Attorney General had tried to defend the initiative in the trial court because any state’s Attorney General is supposed to defend state laws, whether they were passed by the legislature or by initiative.
Proponents of the measure will carry the appeal forward themselves. They will ask the State Supreme Court to reverse the trial court. See this story from Reason magazine. The Attorney General’s decision not to appeal is not covered in that story, because the Attorney General made his decision after that story was written. Thanks to Eric Garris for the link.
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Without the injunction, the petition would have been due on November 17, 2020. Now it is due March 17, 2021. The petition needs 1,495,709 valid signatures. On December 19, proponents said they have approximately 800,000 signatures.
The basis for the ruling is the covid-19 health crisis. Earlier in 2020, California state trial courts had granted more time for two statewide initiatives. However, the federal and state courts in California denied any similar relief to two independent presidential candidates and the Common Sense Party. The two independent candidates were Don Blankenship of the Constitution Party, and Joseph Kishore of the Socialist Equality Party. But, in fairness to the courts, the initiat