HEY! You lawyers out there, JUMP IN!
Politico's Josh Gerstein "Under the Radar" today published the Supreme Court's opinion regarding petitions; in this case it is Washington State's statute allowing public disclosure of signers. In the written opinion there may be a clue as to how the highest court in the land may lean when the new Arizona statute requiring state peace officers to enforce federal immigraition laws. Billy Blogger may be seeing more in this then there really is but you lawyers out there,,, have at it.
"The Supreme Court, by a vote of 8 to 1 and with nearly as many opinions as there are justices, has upheld a Washington state law that requires the public disclosure of the names and addresses of referendum petition signers"
>snip< "This is not a hard case," Stevens wrote in a concurring opinion. "Any burden on speech that petitioners posit is speculative as well as indirect. ...Debates about tax policy and regulation of private property can become just as heated as debates about domestic partnerships....I would demand strong evidence before concluding that an indirect and speculative chain of events poses a substantial burden on speech. A statute 'is not to be upset upon hypothetical and unreal possibilities."
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