Gordon v. Leatherman

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

The issue presented for review is whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a home rule charter of government from attaching to the office of an elected county commissioner a condition that, after one year in office and at a recall election requested in a petition signed by at least 10,000 voters, the commissioner is subject to recall without reason or cause being stated either in the petition or otherwise. We hold that the Fourteenth Amendment does not prevent the attachment of such a condition to an elective office.

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Alex Gordon…