Democratic Legislators Defy Voters and Constitution by Refusing to Govern.

Democrats in state legislatures across the country are picking up in 2012 precisely where they left off in 2011 - with brazen "election nullification" tactics. The Democrats participating in these undemocratic and unlawful election nullification exercises do so under the guise of protecting a "fundamental policy issue." I am talking about, of course, the practice of legislators not coming to the chamber floor to deny a legislative body the required quorum of members present. The most recent case is in Indiana, where Big Labor is opposing Republican efforts to enact a right to work law. While some might question the term "election nullification" as too dramatic, it's actually the simplest way to describe the intent of the actors here: to prevent public policy changes enacted by lawfully elected Republican majorities. Perhaps the Democrats would have a defense to this election nullification claim if they could show that quorum requirements were intended for these instances of "fundamental policy" as an additional "check" in a state's constitutional system of checks and balances. 

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