Woodcock
BANGOR, Maine (Legal Newsline) – Maine will take a federal judge up on his offer to appeal his decision that the state’s petition circulation law is unconstitutional.
On Feb. 22, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows filed appeal papers with federal judge John Woodcock, who six days earlier granted a preliminary injunction against a Maine law that requires petition circulators to be registered voters in the state.
The challenge to the law comes from a political action committee, a state lawmaker and a professional circulator who resides in Michigan.
They want to circulate a petition that targets a ban on non-citizen voting. Woodcock’s ruling was a bit of a surprise, since he refused to grant a temporary restraining order only a month ago.