Update (11:20 AM): Supreme Court ordered SOS to respond by 5:00 PM tomorrow.
It is always the simple things that are overlooked yet often come into play. Such may be the case in the medical marijuana fight. Mayor Hawkins-Butler and the City of Madison filed an emergency petition against Secretary of State Michael Watson yesterday in the Mississippi Supreme Court that seeks to declare the initiative invalid. The 34-page petition revolves around one central point: the Secretary of State improperly certified the petition for Initiative 65 in 2019 by ignoring the Mississippi Constitution's requirement that each congressional district can only contribute 20% of the required signatures for an initiative. It is a case of simple math. Does 1/4 = 1/5?
