“Yes on Term Limits” filed its appeal yesterday in an attempt to invalidate the Oklahoma law requiring petition circulators in Oklahoma to be state residents. This is the law that the Oklahoma 3 are charged with violating.

The appeal was filed with the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, in response to an earlier court ruling in the Western District of Oklahoma upholding the requirement. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice in the past 25 years struck down similar requirements, ruling that government cannot “reduce the available pool” of people to assist citizens in communicating with their fellow citizens and petitioning the government.

Read the Appellants Brief.

State Rep. Mike Reynolds has previously called Attorney General Drew Edmondson on the carpet for pursuing the Oklahoma 3 indictments while the law is being challenged in federal court. Edmondson’s prosecution of the Oklahoma 3 is in direct contrast to his request of the State Court of Appeals to defer executions while a challenge to the death penalty is pending.

“Obviously, this isn’t about justice and objective law,” Rep. Reynolds said. “Our attorney general doesn’t like the death penalty. He also doesn’t like the constitutionally protected right of citizen initiative. And he clearly doesn’t care about the guilt or innocence of those involved.”

Read Rep. Reynold’s full press release.