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Article: State to seek stay of Con Con ruling
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- July 11, 1997
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State officials fear it will be a logistical nightmare to hold a new election within 60 days on whether to convene a Constitutional Convention.
That is the practical reason why Attorney General Margery Bronster will seek a stay while she appeals U.S. District Judge David Ezra's ruling that the Con Con vote last year was fundamentally flawed.
The legal grounds for her appeal, Bronster said yesterday, will be that Ezra's decision "essentially overrules" a Hawaii Supreme Court decision and that is a federal intrusion on states' rights.
"George Wallace cried that, too," countered state House Republican leader Gene Ward, invoking the name of the Alabama governor who used states' rights to fight ...