On the afternoon of January 17, the 6th circuit heard oral arguments in Kurita v The State Primary Board of the Tennessee Democratic Party, the case over whether a political party that holds a primary may set aside the results of that primary and award the nomination to the person who came in second. The dispute arose in 2008. See this story, which has information about what each side in the lawsuit said today, but doesn’t seem to try to predict which way the 3 judges seemed to be leaning. The three judges are Ronald Gilman and Eric Clay, Clinton appointees, and Alice Batchelder, a Bush Sr. appointee.