ANDERSON v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

SJC-13257.

490 Mass. 26 (2022)

CHRISTOPHER R. ANDERSON & others, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 22, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. Martin ( Jordan Bock & Jenna Welsh also present) for the plaintiffs.

Robert E. Toone , Assistant Attorney General ( Anne Sterman & Adam Hornstine , Assistant Attorneys General, also present) for the defendants.

Thomas O. Bean , for the interveners, submitted a brief.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Michael Williams for Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research.

John Pagliaro & Daniel B. Winslow for New England Legal Foundation.

Patrick Strawbridge & James P. McGlone for Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Daniel P. Ryan , Caroline A. Kupiec , & Jillian Friedmann for PioneerLegal, LLC.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


Article 48 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution provides for two processes by which an amendment to our Constitution may be proposed, submitted to the people, and ultimately voted upon. One of these processes begins with a proposal from voters of the Commonwealth, see art. 48, The Initiative, II, § 3, as amended by art...

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