by David Nir
WOW! Just wow:
The Arizona Supreme Court has overturned Gov. Jan Brewer's politically charged removal of the chair of the state redistricting commission and ordering the official's reinstatement.
The court's order issued late Thursday says Brewer's removal letter failed to demonstrate that Colleen Mathis engaged in conduct that gave Brewer constitutional grounds for removal.
Mathis and the Independent Redistricting Commission had challenged her removal, which interrupted the commission's once-a-decade drawing of new congressional and redistricting maps.
This is a massively humiliating turn of events for Brewer—and an awesome win for the rule of law. (For the complete background, click
here and
here.) I'm somewhat surprised that the court decided to get involved in this matter at all, seeing as they could have regarded the entire issue as a "political question" unfit for the legal system, but I'm delighted that they made the right call here.
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