User:Apt-ark/Sandbox/U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton

<!--


 * *Together with No. 93–1828, Bryant, Attorney General of Arkansas v. Hill et al., also on certiorari to the same court.

Syllabus
Stevens, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., filed a concurring opinion, post, p. 838. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O’Connor and Scalia, JJ., joined, post, p. 845.

J. Winston Bryant, Attorney General of Arkansas, pro se, argued the cause for petitioner in No. 93–1828. With him on the briefs were Jeffrey A. Bell, Deputy Attorney General, Ann Purvis and David R. Raupp, Assistant Attorneys General, Grifﬁn B. Bell, Paul J. Larkin, Jr., Richard F. Hatﬁeld, and ''Cleta Deatherage Mitchell. John G. Kester'' argued the cause for petitioners in No. 93–1456. With him on the briefs was ''H. William Allen. Robert H. Bork, Theodore B. Olson, and Thomas G. Hungar ﬁled briefs for Representative Jay Dickey et al., and Edward W. Warren'' ﬁled briefs for the Republican Party of Arkansas et al., as respondents under this Court’s Rule 12.4.

Louis R. Cohen argued the cause for respondents in both cases. With him on the brief for respondents in No. 93–1828 were W. Hardy Callcott, Peter B. Hutt II, and ''Elizabeth J. Robben. Henry Maurice Mitchell, Sherry P. Bartley, Rex E. Lee, Carter G. Phillips, Ronald S. Flagg, Mark D. Hop- son, Joseph R. Guerra, and Jeffrey T. Green'' ﬁled a brief for respondent Thornton in No. 93–1456.

Solicitor General Days argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging afﬁrmance. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorneys General Dellinger and Hunger, Deputy Solicitor General Bender, Paul R. Q. Wolf- son, and Douglas N. Letter.†

Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court.

† Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in both cases were ﬁled for the State of Nebraska et al. by Don Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, and L. Steven Grasz, Deputy Attorney General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Daniel E. Lungren of California, Gale A. Norton of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Charles M. Oberly III of Delaware, Robert A. Butterworth of Florida, Michael J. Bowers of Georgia, Robert A. Marks of Hawaii, Robert T. Stephan of Kansas, Chris Gorman of Kentucky, Scott Harshbarger of Massachusetts, Joseph P. Mazurek of Montana, Jeffrey R. Howard of New Hampshire, Lee Fisher of Ohio, Mark Barnett of South Dakota, Charles W. Burson of Tennessee, and Joseph B. Meyer of Wyoming; for the State of Washington by Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General, James K. Pharris and William B. Collins, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Jeffrey T. Even, Assistant Attorney General; for Citizens for Term Limits et al. by Ronald A. Zumbrun, Anthony T. Caso, Deborah J. La Fetra, and John M. Groen; for the Citizens United Foundation by William J. Olson and John S. Miles; for Congressional Term Limits Coalition, Inc., by John C. Armor and Lowell D. Weeks; for the Mountain States Legal Foundation et al. by William Perry Pendley; for People’s Advocate, Inc., et al. by Jayna P. Karpinski; for the United States Justice Foundation by James V. Lacy; for Virginians for Term Limits et al. by Charles A. Shanor, Zachary D. Fasman, Margaret H. Spurlin, and G. Stephen Parker; and for the Washington Legal Foundation et al. by Timothy E. Flanigan, Daniel J. Popeo, and Paul D. Kamenar.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal in No. 93–1456 were ﬁled for the Alaska Committee for a Citizen Congress et al. by Jeanette R. Burrage; for the Allied Educational Foundation by Bertram R. Gelfand and Jeffrey C. Dannenberg; and for Governor John Engler by Stephen J. Safranek.

Briefs of amici curiae urging afﬁrmance in both cases were filed for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. by Kevin J. Hamilton and Steven R. Shapiro; for the California Democratic Party by Daniel H. Lowenstein and Jonathan H. Steinberg; for the League of Women Voters of the United States et al. by Frederic C. Tausend and Herbert E. Wilgis III; and for Henry J. Hyde by Charles A. Rothfeld.

-->