This is why the courts exist

One important issue omitted in Friday’s report on the Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s legal opinion about the Arizona Clean and Accountable Elections Act is the fact that the effective date for Laws 2016, Chapter 79 (S1516: campaign finance amendments) was changed from Dec. 31 to Nov. 5, which somewhat negates attorney Jim Barton’s argument for why the initiative would supersede the broad-based campaign finance overhaul.

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