The District faces a host of other challenges should its effort to implement the ballot measure succeed.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md ., who eaR-Md .sought to block the city from spending money to implement the ballot initiative, said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. "should prosecute people in the District who participatearlierisoughtatoseemed highly unlikely in an administration that has repeatedly signaled that it will let states conduct their own marijuana experiments.
Proponents of stricter gun control are still fighting to implement the ballot initiative, according to Nevada Gun Safety Coalition co-chair John Saludes.
But because of a provision slipped into an end-of-year spending bill by Maryland GOP Rep. Andy Harris, the city is barred from spending any money to implement the ballot measure, and thus from establishing any rules to govern legal marijuana sales.
The United States government took a historic step back from its long-running drug war in August, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults.
WASHINGTON -- The United States government took a historic step back from its long-running drug war on Thursday, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would allow the states to create a regime that would regulate and implement the ballot initiatives that legalized the use of marijuana for adults.
Just 8,106 ballots were received by the Burbank city clerk's office by 7 p.m. Tuesday, compared with 10,990 during the previous primary nominating election in 2009 — making for the lowest showing since implementing the mail-in ballot system in 2005, according to election returns.
"Today's decision is wrong on the law and improperly prevents Texas from implementing the same type of ballot integrity safeguards that are employed by Georgia and Indiana — and were upheld by the Supreme Court," Abbott said in a statement.
Mr. Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, did not respond to an e-mail message seeking comment, but in a column he wrote about the suit last year in The Wall Street Journal, he said, "The legal system should not be used as a bludgeon against individuals targeted by political activists to impose policy preferences they have failed to implement via the ballot box".
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