U.S. Supreme Court Puts Washington State Top-Two Open Primary Case on September 24 Conference

The U.S. Supreme Court will hold a conference on Monday, September 24, to decide which cases to hear in the upcoming term. Among the cases to be considered on that day are the Washington State Democratic and Libertarian Party cert petitions in the case over the top-two open primary law. The Court may possibly reveal on Friday, September 28, what it has decided; or it may reveal this on Monday, October 1; or it may be undecided and then set an additional conference date in October. Sometimes the Court thinks about a particular case for three or four conferences before it decided whether to take a case.


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U.S. Supreme Court Puts Washington State Top-Two Open Primary Case on September 24 Conference — 5 Comments

  1. Top 2 primary = TWO plurality extremists = Double the EVIL trouble in gerrymander districts.
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    P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.

    NO super-evil – dangerous primaries.

  2. It’s just pure speculation when it comes to what the SCOTUS will do on its way to a decision or even what it’ll decide. Justice Scalia probably doesn’t think the future of top two is worth leaking info, so what Justice Ginsberg reminds us of likely true: People who know arn’t talking and those talking don’t know.

    Without speculating too much these writs are about political law. Karl Rove used that term and he’s right. What he means, but would not likely say straight out and what I mean is this is that area of the law where there is no justice, not on purpose at least. America is like a bannana republic in that regard.

    These cases are not Republican v Democrat so that means it won’t be 5-4 but 8-1. These cases are Winners v Losers. The kind of candidate that seeks to offer a large correction to public policy is more encumbered in post-Citizens United, top-two enviroment. Longshots are disposed of early. Political professionals have to work around fewer wildcards. Fewer serious candidates will run as the insider game swells in importance.

    The only correction the Supreme Court can make is to side with losers, the less expert in the political game, the less likely, the ones with serious questions about the current governing paradigm, the alternatives.

    The Court will side with winners, professionalizing even further representation. The two major parties get another layer of insulation from an incursion onto their private turf.

    The Court is saying or will say again people will have to pry the major parties out with a crowbar quite intentionally .

  3. Tired of chasing your tail like BAN year after year after year? Try pure proportional representation (PR)!

    The 8th USA Parliament, founded on August 6th 1995.

    We’re not like BAN, who will procrastinate and try to support single-winner district power-grabbers, IRV or waste time on promoting and collecting money for frivolous political lawsuits.

    Right now, every marked eballot cast on the national single parliamentary election, is guaranteed to elect all names garnering 1/1001th (.999%) plus one vote, for a total guaranteed satisfaction level of 99.9% plus 1000 votes – votes that count and elect names.

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  4. Opponents of top-two primaries ought to propose alternatives rather than be purely reactionary. Here’s an idea: allow parties that 1) pay for their own primary, 2) have an alternative on-line and/or mail-in nomination process, or 3) elect to nominate by convention be allowed to by-pass the top-two primary.

  5. # 4 NO caucuses, primaries and conventions.
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    ONE election day.

    Direct nominations by equal nominating petitions.

    P.R. legislative
    App.V. executive/judicial

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