On June 11, Scotusblog listed the Washington state lawsuit over the constitutionality of top-two election systems in its “cert petitions to watch.” See this link. Scroll down to the heading “Petitions of the day.” Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.
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Edited By Richard Winger
The SCOTUS is more of a political body than it once was. When it comes to political law, they’re totally political. Harder to tell though when the issue is establishment v notions of justice as opposed to regular partisanship.
My guess they will ignore pleas for justice to minor parties altogether but will have a lopsided vote to basically tell Washington to stop refering parties in the preference space allotted but find everything else the state is doing as benign, lifting a lot of burden from them in the legal sense.
This nations political establishment has/will have only a slightly complicated relationship with the top-two system in that bemusement will be projected but they/it love it, it simply offers more predictability, careerists embrace it too.
Top 2 — one more WRONG MORON FIX — for the divided majority math problem with 2 or more candidates.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V — pending advanced Condorcet head to head math (from the 1780s – repeat 1780s)
— regardless of ALL of the STONE AGE gerrymander robot party hacks in ALL elections since 4 July 1776.
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