Seasoned Lewiston Lawyer and J.A.I.L. proponent John Bradbury provided J.A.I.L.er Rose Johnson with a “cursory” review of the AG's review and stated that he was, “confident....that the opinion is seriously flawed” (see page 13).
The Secretary of State's office approved the ballot titles for the J.A.I.L. Initiative February 15. The short ballot title, drafted by the Idaho Attorney General's office and affixed to the bottom of the petition signature page, reads, “An Initiative Creating A Special Grand Jury With Statewide Jurisdiction In Order to Review Every Judges' Actions and Decisions.”
Though every person who signs a J.A.I.L. petition phone number list will read the short title of the initiative, there is nothing in its text to suggest that the grand jury will have the authority to review every judge's actions and decisions.
According to the text, , “...any deliberate violation of the law, fraud or conspiracy, intentional violation of due process of law, deliberate disregard of material facts, judicial acts without jurisdiction, blocking a lawful conclusion of a case, or any deliberate violation of the Constitution of Idaho or the United States.”
The long ballot title is equally as misrepresentative of the initiative's intent. The first few lines of the long ballot title read, “An Initiative creating a special grand jury with statewide jurisdicion for the purpose of eliminating judicial immunity in all forms, reviewing the decisions and actions of judges in all cases before them...”
The grand jury is authorized to investigate
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