Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Sam Reed said it right: "Wow!" The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against the state's political parties in overturning a lower court's decision that our Top Two primary is unconstitutional. This means that starting with this year's August primary, all candidates will be on a single primary ballot with the top two finshers advancing to the general election, regardless of party. For the record, Justices Scalia and Kennedy were the dissenters.

I'm absolutely floored by this decision. I had grown so used to courts siding with the parties over the people themselves, that I assumed SCOTUS would once again follow the lead of the lower courts. Happy, happy, happy!