Clark v. Pawlenty

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• holding that the Minnesota Constitution does not bar a supreme court justice “from seeking election to the judicial office to which she was appointed” by the governor
• noting that “[t]he processes about which petitioners complain are not new,” and rejecting an untimely challenge to an alleged “systemic problem” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that under Article VI, Section 8, “an appointed judge will serve at least one year before the seat to which he or she was appointed appears on the ballot”
• declining to interpret the word \successor\ differently in two different sections of the Minnesota Constitution
• applying laches to bar election challenge where \[t]he processes about which petitioners complain are not new\
• applying laches to bar election challenge where \[t]he processes about which petitioners complain are not new\

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