WASHINGTON SUPREMOS

II expected that the Supreme Court would stay out of election disputes. The argument was pretty simple: the Supremes put their institutional legitimacy at stake in the 2000 election, and their shyness in 2002 was a sign that they were appropriately chastened by what they had wrought.

I was wrong. Today, Election Law Blog author Rick Hasen is quoted by the AP as follows:

many people predicted the court would be a little gun-shy, but the court's been remarkably aggressive in the election area.

Whatever else it does, the fact of my wrongness does two things:

1. suggests that this election season could, in fact, be very interesting from a constitutional election law standpoint, and


2. suggests that the new Washington baseball team (yay!) should be called the WASHINGTON SUPREMOS.