Willems v. SEC. of State Lind

¶36 I have joined the Court’s opinion and write only to share my doubts that the relief sought by the Plaintiffs could have been granted in any event. The Plaintiffs’ complaint asked the District Court to declare “that the Commission’s reassignment on February 12,2013, of Senator Ripley to SD-10 and Senator Hamlett to SD-15 in accordance with the Llew Jones Motion was unlawful.” The State did not raise an argument about the propriety of the relief sought and neither party discussed the court’s authority to strike a single amendment from the Commission’s final plan.

¶37 Article V, Section 14 of…