The state Supreme Court plagiarized its majority opinion when it ruled to strike down charter schools as unconstitutional last year. According to former Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, about 30% of the opinion was lifted from the plaintiff’s (which included the Washington Education Association) brief without any citations. In other news, liberals are pushing a statewide initiative that would allow voters to make “taxpayer-funded donations” to political candidates. Also, Seattle billionaire and $15 minimum wage activist Nick Hanauer was exposed as a hypocrite. Apparently, he pays his employees $7.25 per hour. Finally, the federal trial of disgraced Democrat State Auditor Troy Kelley starts this week and a witness for the prosecution has defense attorneys scrambling to do damage control.