California Attorney General, and Supporters of California’s Top-Two System, File Response in California Supreme Court

Ballot Access News:

"On December 6, the California Attorney General filed this 16-page brief in the California Supreme Court, urging that Court not to hear Field v Bowen, the case that challenges some of the characteristics of the top-two system. The only issue presently before that Court is whether the implementing legislation is defective because it allows some candidates to show their party on the ballot, but not other candidates.

The state continues to maintain that the new law does not permit members of non-qualified parties to list their party on the ballot. The state also argues this separate treatment is constitutional."