[EL] Va. Ballot decision coming/more news

Fri Jan 13 15:06:58 PST 2012

Justice Li's fantasy opinion states, "*Texas has one of the earliest
legislative and congressional primaries in the nation."

I must stand up for the honor of Alabama. Our Legislature decided that in
presidential-election years, it would make sense to have a combined
presidential primary and Congressional/state/local primary (we are electing
mainly judges this year). But they also wanted to be early in the
presidential primary process. So we will have a primary on March 13 --
nearly 8 months ahead of the general election.
*
Can anyone top that?

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

>
> “Justice Li”‘s Fantasy Opinion in the Texas Redistricting Case<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=27910>
> Posted on January 13, 2012 11:31 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=27910>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here<http://txredistricting.org/post/15736018207/what-might-a-scotus-ruling-look-like-my-thoughts>
> .
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>   Posted in Department of Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>,
> redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,
> Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15> | Comments Off
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