Breaking News: Supreme Court, on Bopp's Second Try, Denies, Over Two Dissents, Request for Injunction in Maine Public Financing Case

Via SCOTUSBlog comes word of this order from the Court:

10A362 RESPECT MAINE PAC, ET AL. V. MCKEE, WALTER F., ET AL.

The application for an injunction, presented to Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court, is denied. Applicants are correct to note that relief was granted in McComish v. Bennett, 560 U. S. ___ , (2010), which concerned a constitutional challenge to an Arizona law similar to the Maine law challenged by applicants here. The McComish applicants, however, requested a stay of an appeals court decision, whereas applicants here are asking for an injunction against enforcement of a presumptively constitutional state legislative act. Such a request "demands a significantly higher justification" than a request for a stay because, unlike a stay, an injunction "does not simply suspend judicial alteration of the status quo but grants judicial intervention that has been withheld by lower courts." Ohio Citizens for Responsible Energy, Inc. v. NRC, 479 U. S. 1312, 1313 (1986) (Scalia, J., in chambers). In light of these considerations, and given the difficulties in fashioning relief so close to the election, applicants' request for extraordinary relief is denied.

Justice Scalia and Justice Alito would grant the application for an injunction as to the matching fund provisions.

I would not read too much into this ruling either on the likelihood that the Court will take the Arizona case or, if it takes the case, how it would rule. (I've already said I think it is likely the Court will take the Arizona case to reverse the Ninth Circuit.)

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