Convention Center Referendum Committee v. District of Columbia Board of Elections & Ethics

FERREN, Associate Judge,

with whom KELLY and MACK, Associate Judges, concur:

This case presents questions of exceptional importance concerning both the legislative powers of the District of Columbia Council and the related right of the electorate to adopt legislation by initiative. We conclude that the initiative submitted to the Board of Elections and Ethics (the Board) by the Convention Center Referendum Committee (CCRC) to bar construction and operation of a convention center meets the threshold requirement of the Charter Amendments, D.C.Code 1980 Supp., § 1-181(a), that an initiative…