On April 29, the California Supreme Court refused to hear Rubin v Padilla, the case filed by three of California’s minor parties that charges the top-two system injures voting rights in the general election. It is conceivable that the case will now be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
What fool reason did they give for this decision? I do hope that it is appealed – for whatever good that may do.
Meanwhile, far more democratic nations in Europe and elsewhere look upon our election system that is rapidly becoming a corrupted plutocratic mess with disbelief. Hopefully something happens that changes our trajectory, maybe the CPD will finally let third party candidates into the debate. One can hope at least.
The Court didn’t give any reason. The order just said “denied.”
The court only said “denied”? Obviously this provides less with which to appeal to the Federal courts. But, it also probably indicates the court’s real lack of consideration of the case and a lack of “guts” to be above board and truthful.
Just “denied”? They didn’t even attempt an excuse? Wow…forget the Supreme Court (it’s not like they’re going to be any more sympathetic), they should let all the international election monitors know. We’re going to need some outside pressure at this rate.
https://youtu.be/2E62Nfvlm80
If the usual suspects quickly appeal to SCOTUS, then perhaps the top 2 torture (going on since 2006 – repeat 2006) will end by early July or not later than early Oct ???
What (if any) FEDERAL QUESTIONS were involved in the case ??
NO FQ – then automatically NO SCOTUS case.