[Svartalfiar]

If using the old district lines wasn’t good enough (which it should have been) then they should have ruled that signatures had to be equally divided between however many districts there currently are.

And that would be judicial activism, with them rewriting the law to fit what outcome they decided on.

Old district lines don't work - The law specifies the signatures must be split between Congressional districts, not geographical areas that used to be Congressional districts.

Ruling they need to be split rewrites the law - it states that each district cannot contribute more than 1/5 of the minimum needed for the ballot to pass. Changing that to 1/4 or 1/# is something the Legislature has to do, not something judges even can do.

[Svartalfiar]

This stupid ruling will do nothing but cause chaos.

Forgot to add - it's not a stupid ruling, it was an extremely stupidly written law. See my post 11 for why it was dumb even back when MI had five districts.

[Farcesensitive]

The ruling rewrites the law no matter how you rule.
And this ruling does away with citizen initiatives which is a much greater rewriting of the law.