By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times
Attorneys for the state are trying to block challengers to newly enacted initiative restrictions from telling their story to a judge.
The lawyers contend that the claims of those who contend the new law will harm future petition efforts are “fanciful and not genuine.” And attorney David Cantelme, who is leading the defense on behalf of Republican legislative leaders who pushed through the change, said that makes anything the challengers have to say in court legally irrelevant — and legally inadmissible.
But Cantelme is not the only one seeking to limit what Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens will consider at a hearing next month.
