After gutting the Better Boundaries initiative and having the Utah Supreme Court tell them that wasn’t okay, the Utah Legislature is now asking voters for permission to gut Better Boundaries or any other initiative.
They can wring their hands and clutch their pearls all day long about the dangers of having “super-laws” but the fact is that citizen initiatives are probably the hardest way to pass extreme legislation. Better Boundaries wasn’t extreme (except that it was extremely inconvenient for the GOP majority in the legislature) but the legislature is just using the spectre of extreme initiatives to try to convince us that they should be allowed to override (not simply clarify or amend) the will expressed by the voters at the ballot box.
This is a case study in why it is dangerous to have a single party consistently dominating the politics of the state.
