Faced with the prospect of appearing on the November ballot alongside some particularly thorny ballot questions, Governor Maura Healey has repeatedly gotten a hand from a higher power: the Supreme Judicial Court.
The court’s recent ballot-question purge delivered victories to some powerful interests, from organized labor to the real estate industry. But in blocking two high-stakes questions from going before voters, justices also indirectly spared the governor from having to navigate politically fraught fights as she gears up for an expensive reelection campaign.
Healey had already made clear where she stood on both.
A question that would’ve cut the income tax to
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