On June 1, U.S. District Court Joe Heaton issued an opinion in Jones v Stitt, w.d., 5:22cv-278. The issue is Oklahoma’s special election for U.S. Senate that the Governor has called for November 7, 2022, for the Class II seat. That seat is not currently empty. But U.S. Senator James Inhofe, who holds the seat, says he will retire in January 2023. The court ruled that Senator Inhofe’s promise to retire in January 2023 means the seat is effectively vacant starting in January 2023, and therefore the Governor is within his rights to call the special election, which will be held November 2022. Thanks to ElectionLawBlog for the link.
This means that Oklahoma will have two U.S. Senate elections this November.
USA Senate — evil / vicious semi-permanent gerrymander oligarchy — full of blow-hard hacks — esp from small States.
Direct cause [along with slavery] of 1861-1865 USA Civil WAR I with its 750,000 DEAD —
after all the new free/slave State machinations in 1789-1865 and the 1865-1912 post-WAR new State machinations – more SMALL pop States out West.
abolish it N-O-W.
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PR in ALL legislative bodies.
promise to retire = about as useful/enforceable as a NO WAR clause in a deal —
see Hitler-Stalin pact wiping out Poland in Aug 1939 >>> about 40 million dead Germans and USSR folks in 1941-1945.