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A smelly Supreme Court race gets weirder, with candidate criticism touching a potential colleague

The Arkansas Supreme Court race between Judge Robin Wynne and Tim Cullen, already stinking to high heaven because of a huge stealth expenditure by an out-of-state organization against Cullen, added a funny wrinkle today, gibes by both candidates against sitting Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson.
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UPDATE: Arkansas Supreme Court to hear arguments on stay of marriage ruling; meanwhile almost 300 same-sex couples newlyweds

Marriage licenses will continue to be issued to same-sex couples in four counties in Arkansas at least until tomorrow. The Arkansas Supreme Court has responded to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel's request of Judge Chris Piazza's ruling overturning the same-sex marriage ban by giving plaintiffs until noon Tuesday to respond. It's uncertain when the Supreme Court will rule. UPDATED with legal developments, marriage count and more.
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Supreme Court candidate airs response to out-of-state stealth group's attack ad

Tim Cullen, who's opposing Robin Wynne in a race for Arkansas Supreme Court, hurried up production of a response ad last night to the emergence today of a huge attack ad buy against him by a shadowy out-of-state group with a history of intervening in court races around the country without disclosing its financial backing. Cullen has also done a print response slamming the clandestine ad buy, estimated by Cullen's camp at $200,000, and castigating Wynne for not disavowing the attack.

Stealth PAC pours money into Arkansas Supreme Court race

For perhaps the first time, a stealth out-of-state PAC with a nasty history is spending big money to influence an Arkansas judicial race — the state Supreme Court contest between Appeals Court Judge Robin Wynne and Tim Cullen.
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Judge Tim Fox again finds Arkansas Voter ID law unconstitutional but stays ruling

Circuit Judge Tim Fox, who last week struck down the 2013 Voter ID law because it unconstitutionally adds additional requirements to be eligible to vote, today again found the law unconstitutional in a separate case, but stayed his decision, citing the beginning of early voting on Monday. He said he didn't want to create turmoil at the polls.

Supreme Court stays portion of Voter ID ruling

The Arkansas Supreme Court today issued a split ruling on staying Circuit Judge Tim Fox's ruling last week invalidating the state's new Voter ID law. The effect seems to mean that, barring an uncommonly fast ruling, early voting could begin next week with the Voter ID law in effect.
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UPDATE: Three justices won't hear appeals on judicial election lawsuits

A records check shows three Supreme Court justices won't participate in appeals of lawsuits over ballot eligibility of four judicial candidates.

Court expedites appeals on judicial candidate lawsuits

The Arkansas Supreme Court has approved an expedited schedule for appeals in four lawsuits over ballot eligibility in several judicial contests in the May 20 primary/judicial elections.
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One more thing about those judicial suspensions

For the 10s of you following the state judicial eligibility saga, a quick note about this morning Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story that led with the finding that nearly a third of sitting judges in the state have been suspended for not paying their bar dues since 2006: Aside from serving as further evidence that judges are slackers like the rest of it, the story didn't tell us much.

Arkansas Supreme Court denies petition asking Court to rule on law-license suspension kerfuffle

The Arkansas Supreme Court today denied the petition from Circuit Judge H.G. Foster asking the Court to settle the ongoing matter of what counts as a law-license suspension for judicial candidates once and for all.
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Judge Tim Fox ruled eligible for election despite past law license suspension

Circuit Judge Sam Bird yesterday ruled that Circuit Judge Tim Fox is an eligible candidate for re-election. A lawsuit was filed earlier this month alleging that Fox should be disqualified because of a suspension in his law license in 2013 for failure to pay bar dues. The Arkansas Constitution requires judicial candidates to have been licensed attorneys in the state for six consecutive years prior to taking the seat (eight for Supreme Court judges). Bird ruled that an administrative suspension for late payment, unlike a punitive suspension for misconduct, would not disqualify a candidate.

Judge Wendell Griffen: Angela Byrd's law-license suspension violated her due process rights

Here's the ruling from Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen finding that it's unconstitutional to automatically suspend the law license of an attorney (in the case for non-payment of dues) without giving a chance for the attorney to contest the suspension. Griffen declared the automatic suspensions unconstitutional on Wednesday and released his 18-page ruling yesterday.
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