AG asks Supreme Court to let car-tab measure take effect

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OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson is asking the state Supreme Court to set aside a lower court ruling preventing a reduction in car tab costs from taking effect Thursday, as voters wanted.

In an emergency motion filed late Monday, the attorney general contends that a preliminary injunction against Initiative 976, issued by a King County Superior Court judge, is “legally flawed” and “overrides the will” of voters.

“The only way to protect the voters’ will is for this court to stay the injunction so that I-976 can take effect as our constitution specifies,” Deputy Solicitor General Alan Copsey wrote in the motion. “Failure to do so would frustrate the will of the voters without justification and force hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians to pay vehicle taxes and fees higher than they should now owe.”

Meanwhile Tuesday, an Everett attorney undertook a different legal path and asked the Supreme Court to vacate the injunction and directly handle the case itself.

Flanked by initiative sponsor Tim Eyman outside the Temple of Justice, attorney Stephen Pidgeon filed a petition for writ of mandamus in which he argued all judges in King County Superior Court should be disqualified from hearing the case because the county is among the parties contesting the measure’s legality.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/car-tab-ruling-appealed-to-state-supreme-court/

Where did Pidgeon get his law degree from? A Crackerjack box?

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1. A little more on Stephen Pidgeon

From 2012:

Pidgeon is known for representing Protect Marriage Washington, an anti-gay marriage group, in efforts to block the release of signatures on the unsuccessful Referendum 71 campaign to overturn the state's expanded domestic partnership law.

But if some conservative Republicans are looking for a viable alternative to Dunn, they may want to check out Pidgeon's other views.

Pidgeon has also been a figure in the widely discredited "birther" movement that peddles conspiracy theories alleging that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the U.S.

In 2009 he filed a petition in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking a grand jury investigation of those claims. (The case was quickly dismissed.) He's also self-published a book detailing some of his theories, called "The Obama Error."

http://old.seattletimes.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2017293081_hear_dunns_new_opponent_talk_a.html