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Following yesterday’s hour-long hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns sentenced Byrne to 70 months in prison for each of the five counts, according to Mary Johnson, Stearns’ clerk. The terms will be served concurrently...
...tenth of the students in a council district must sign a petition in order to initiate a recall election. Then, a two-thirds majority must vote to actually remove the representative. If the turnout in this recall election is less than the turnout in the last general election, nothing happens...
...should be relaxed. The typical council representative during the last general election was elected with two or three dozen first-place votes out of a turnout of about 100. A suitably intransigent voting bloc could collude to keep their favored representative in office even if the majority of the district desired otherwise, but could not muster the requisite supermajority...
Recall elections should be binding if the turnout exceeds either some fraction of the turnout from the first election or a lesser fraction of the total population of the district. If this turnout is not achieved, the appropriate response should be to hold elections again, not to dismiss the recall petition as merely reflecting some fickle and unimportant whim...
With the help of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), Davey sued the state for violation of the Free Exercise clause of the Federal Constitution, and although the District Court found in the State’s favor, the 9th Circuit Court reversed the decision 2-1 on appeal. The state has now appealed to the Supreme Court...