Lawsuit filed over Utah ballot initiative changes
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 can...