Advisory Opinion to the Attorney General re Referenda Required for Adoption

Guided by the perspective that this Court is a court of limited jurisdiction and reading the applicable constitutional provisions in pari materia, I conclude that this Court’s jurisdiction to render an advisory opinion regarding an initiative petition is limited to those issues concerning the validity of the initiative petition itself. And, because the validity of the initiative petition itself is not dependent upon the validity of the financial impact statement, I dissent to this Court’s advisory opinion on the financial impact statement in this case.2

The majority concludes that this Court…