State Ex Rel. Turner v. Scott

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• holding that where the Iowa Constitution provides that each house of the Iowa Legislature judges the qualification of its members, a quo warranto action to remove a state senator from office was a political question
• characterizing as a nonjusticia-ble controversy a quo warranto action to remove a senator who allegedly failed to satisfy state’s inhabitancy requirement
• characterizing as a non-justifiable controversy a quo warranto action to remove a Senator who allegedly failed to satisfy the states inhabitancy requirement
• characterizing as a non-justifiable controversy a quo warranto action to remove a Senator who allegedly failed to satisfy the states inhabitancy requirement
• collecting state court decisions declining to review legislative determination of members’ qualifications
• Power granted by Iowa Constitution to legislature to judge election and qualifications of its members cannot be exercised by the courts.

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