Roberts v. Brown

Interim Secretary of State Dawn Roberts has filed an extraordinary writ petition that invokes this Court’s all writs jurisdiction. Secretary Roberts also seeks a writ of prohibition on the basis that the Second Judicial Circuit Court is acting in excess of its jurisdiction by accepting jurisdiction to consider a pre-election action for declaratory and injunctive relief that seeks to remove two citizen-initiative proposed constitutional amendments from the November ballot. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(7), Fla. Const. For the reasons discussed, we grant the petition and direct the…