Legal Opinion
Thorsted v. Gregoire
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided February 10, 1994No. C92-1763WD, C93-770WDPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON DISPOSITIVE MOTIONS
DWYER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
These consolidated cases are of fundamental importance to the structure of representative government in the United States. At issue is the constitutionality of a state law designed to prevent incumbents who have served for a specified number of years from winning re-election to the United States Senate or House of Representatives.
On November 3, 1992, the voters of the State of Washington approved Initiative Measure 573 by a margin of about fifty-two to forty-eight percent. (The measure failed, by a similar margin, in the state’s…
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