Bernie Moreno on Issue 1 and the Court Challenge to the Abortion Ballot Issue

Bernie Moreno on Issue 1 and the Court Challenge to the Abortion Ballot Issue

Traveling the state and urging his fellow Ohioans to vote YES on Issue 1 to Protect Ohio's Constitution from the radical left, Cleveland businessman and candidate for the U.S. Senate Bernie Moreno shares the importance of the August 8th Special Election passage of Issue 1 that will raise the Constitutional amendment passage threshold to 60 percent. The polls show the issue neck and neck, but momentum is building in support of Issue 1. 

 

Part 2  Breaking News.....  A lawsuit has been filed, challenging the abortion ballot issue at the Ohio Supreme Court. The radical abortion ballot issue backed by Planned Parenthood and the ACLU has just been challenged in the Ohio Supreme Court.  The Court has granted an expedited hearing on the case. Cincinnati Constitutional Attorney Curt Hartman argues that the abortion ballot amendment proposal is unconstitutional, as it does not state the laws that it would replace if adopted. Legal analysts watching this case say that this is the one to watch. The case has great merit and is stating the facts that are in Ohio law.  Quoting the brief filed by Attorney Hartman: "The law this Court is now called upon to apply is clear and unequivocal: any statewide initiative petition proposing a constitutional amendment must include “the text of any existing statute…that would be amended or repealed if the proposed…constitutional amendment is adopted.”  R.C. 3519.01(A).  Equally clear and undisputed is the fact that the statewide initiative petition at issue herein did not identify or include the text of any existing statute whatsoever.  Yet, the proposed constitutional amendment seeks to radically and fundamentally alter the whole subject-matter relating to reproductive rights (and abortion, in particular), including establishing a new and expansive definition on fetal viability, as well as establishing more liberal standards on abortion.  In so doing, the proposed constitutional amendment will create irreconcilable conflicts or repugnancies with innumerable provisions of existing statute, resulting in such statutes being amended or repealed.  Because the statewide initiative petition at issue herein failed to comply with the law, i.e., R.C. 3519.01(A), by including the text of any existing statute that would be amended or repealed if the proposed constitutional amendment is adopted, the petition failed to comply with all requirements of law and, accordingly, the petition must be declared to be invalid and the proposed constitutional amendment not placed on the ballot at the forthcoming general election."  Click here to read the entire brief