[Opinion] SJC weighs in on legislative stipends, access to legislature’s public records ballot questions

SJC weighs in on legislative stipends, access to legislature’s public records ballot questions

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a pair of opinions Monday on ballot questions pending before the Legislature, allowing one proposing subjecting state lawmakers and the governor to the public records law to go forward and halting another intending to govern legislative stipends.

Mass. SJC signals doubts about ballot proposals to reform Legislature

BOSTON — The Supreme Judicial Court on Monday raised serious constitutional doubts about a ballot question that would reform the Legislature and left unresolved key issues around a public records proposal, setting up potential legal fights ahead. Both campaigns say they intend to keep moving toward the November ballot.  In advisory opinions requested by the Senate, the high court offered a detailed legal roadmap that could shape what happens nex…