Your area of specialty but point me to a case of a court mandating an elelction canceled by a state legislature.https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/929420582105464832 …
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Also a good argument that the 17th Amendment *requires* that there be a replacement election; it cannot simply be cancelled. http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=nulr …
Oh this is an interesting precedent, @hughhewitt, for the anti-democratic aspect of cancelling elections already called (from the above cited article) cc: @neal_katyal :pic.twitter.com/qEIFdLZ4dN
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So far my research has not uncovered any case where a state tried to cancel a Senate special election which was challenged in court. Likely because it so unbelievably undemocratic to try to do so.
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The background context on Hewitt's undemocraric idea is that if the GOP got away with canceling an election in AL, next step could very well be the wholesale canceling of national elections in 2018 and 2020
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But as Hugh pointed out, NJ and Bob Torricelli is more recent precedent. Ds are estopped to complain.
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Let’s throw something in a river!
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especially if you are concerned that trump might try to cancel 2020!
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