Although the U.S. Supreme Court released four opinions on February 20, it did not release any election law opinion. The two cases that are awaiting a decision are Washington State v Washington State Republican Party, and Crawford v Marion County, Indiana. The next date for release of opinions is February 25.
On February 22, the Court will again consider whether to hear Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, but any news about that will not be released until February 25. Citizens United concerns whether the makers of a movie that criticizes Hillary Clinton must reveal the names of people who contributed money toward advertising that movie.
The North Carolina redistricting case, called Bartlett v Strickland, had been on conference earlier this week, but the Court didn’t decide whether to accept it. No new conference date to reconsider that case has been set.
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It would seem that the Supremes may be finding Washington state’s “top two” case tougher to decide than they may have expected.
If that “top two” is completely unconstitutional, then so are all the nonpartisan local and judicial election systems.