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The Idaho Supreme Court has issued an order denying the petition from House Speaker Lawerence Denney and Idaho GOP Chairman Norm Semanko asking the court to order Secretary of State Ben Ysursa to declare two vacancies on the state's citizen redistricting commission; you can read the order here. The court essentially ruled that Denney and Semanko hadn't come up with sufficient legal reasons why the court should take that action; this means their challenge is dead, and the citizen redistricting commission is good to go as-is; it's scheduled to meet tomorrow morning at 9. “Petitioners failed to file a brief showing a clear right to the relief sought under statute or constitution of the state of Idaho,” the justices wrote, in an order signed by Chief Justice Roger Burdick.
Denney and Semanko wanted to replace the two GOP commissioners, Dolores Crow of Nampa and Randy Hansen of Twin Falls, that they had chosen for the commission; now both can serve.
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duroc on January 25 at 3:42 p.m.
Sweet.
Sisyphus on January 25 at 4:06 p.m.
Trouble is, it solves nothing. We’re gonna have eight commissioners show up tomorrow with no clear guidance on who the proper commissioners are. If the goal was to make sure that Idaho moves their primary to August, this is a great ruling for Semanko and Denney. Where the commission meeting tomorrow?
duroc on January 25 at 4:12 p.m.
I hereby revoke my “sweet” and replace it with a “what the hell is going on?”
Digger on January 25 at 4:45 p.m.
Whats going on?
The way I see it, and I’m nowhere near an attorney, but if the court denied the request to order Big Ben to Crow and Hansen to bust sand, then Crow and Hansen are still on the commission, Big Ben can inform the other two appointees that they’re not commissioned for a damn thing and the original commission can move forward with fixing the plan.
JamesBond on January 25 at 6:48 p.m.
Yeh, it’s over.
ericn1300 on January 25 at 8:23 p.m.
Even if 8 commissioners show up only 6 have been sworn in by the Secretary of State.