U.S. Supreme Court Gives Top-Two Supporters Until June 22 to File Response Briefs

The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the deadline for Washington state, and the Washington state Grange, to file their responses in the case challenging top-two election systems. The new deadline is June 22. The case is Washington State Democratic Committee v Washington State Grange, numbers 11-1263 and 11-1266. If the state and the Grange had not asked for more time, the briefs would all be in by now and we could have expected the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in June whether to hear the case. But because of the delay, the decision on whether the court hears this case will not be made until September at the earliest, and not revealed to the public until early October.Read the full story here.