Subject: Re: Vieth
From: Roy Schotland
Date: 4/28/2004, 11:39 AM
To: rick.hasen@mail.lls.edu
CC: "election-law@majordomo.lls.edu" <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>

Just goes to show, Who needs lawyers?  As you may recall, at the oral argument the two lawyers seeking affirmance included one who, moments after he began, was reprimanded by Rehnquist for literally reading his argument ... and his colleague, when asked by Stevens for his view of the Powell-Stevens opinion in Bandemer, said he hadn't read it.

Rick Hasen wrote:

Update 1: Here is the early A.P. report, confirming that Justice Kennedy's opinion appears to be decisive here.
Update 2: Those with Lexis access can find the opinion at 2004 U.S. LEXIS 3233. Thanks to Luke McLoughlin for the pointer.
Update 3: Westlaw: 2004 WL 894316 (Thanks to Benjamin Ledsham for the link).
Update 4: The Supreme Court has posted a pdf of the opinion here. And here is an updated A.P. report.
Analysis to follow. There is a lot to digest here. 
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