The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the deadline for Washington state, and the Washington state Grange, to file their responses in the case challenging top-two election systems. The new deadline is June 22. The case is Washington State Democratic Committee v Washington State Grange, numbers 11-1263 and 11-1266. If the state and the Grange had not asked for more time, the briefs would all be in by now and we could have expected the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in June whether to hear the case. But because of the delay, the decision on whether the court hears this case will not be made until September at the earliest, and not revealed to the public until early October.
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Edited By Richard Winger
The WA stuff started in merely 2005.
Thus – Is this stuff among THE longest election law cases EVER ???
Only the BAN database can know for sure.
#1 If you count the litigation over the blanket primary it is even longer. The initial Grange initiative said that if the blanket primary was upheld on appeal, that the Top 2 would not take effect.
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