2/3 vote requirement for revenue bills struck down in superior court

http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2012/05/breaking-tim-eymans-i-1053-has-finally-been-struck-down-as-unconstitutional.html

Joyous news to report out of the King County Courthouse this morning: Superior Court Judge Bruce Heller has just ruled that Tim Eyman’s I-1053 – the third in a series of initiatives undemocratically requiring two-thirds votes of both houses of the Legislature to raise revenue – is unconstitutional on multiple grounds.

The ruling, which Rob McKenna’s office already plans to appeal, marks the first time that a court of law in Washington State has ever decided a legal challenge against the right wing’s repeated efforts to undermine our plan of government with initiatives that undemocratically require two-thirds votes to raise or restore revenue.

Legal challenges to I-1053?s predecessors (I-601, I-960) were dismissed on technicalities and went nowhere; but this time, Judge Heller found that the lawsuit against I-1053 was justiciable and properly brought, and proceeded to rule on the merits of the case, as the plaintiffs had urged him to do.