A Missouri court has rejected a request to let voters decide in November whether to erect some of the nation's strongest protections for laws passed by citizen initiative.
The ruling Wednesday by a Cole County judge upholds a decision by Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, who had blocked the amendment from the November ballot despite thousands of petition signatures for it. Hoskins asserted that the measure violated the state constitution by containing multiple subjects and restricting a republican form of government.
