Happening now: Washington State Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on constitutionality of charter schools initiative

This after­noon, the Wash­ing­ton State Supreme Court is hear­ing oral argu­ments in League of Women Vot­ers, et al. v. State of Wash­ing­ton, a law­suit brought by a coali­tion of orga­ni­za­tions that con­tend that Ini­tia­tive 1240 (which autho­rized the cre­ation of char­ter schools in Wash­ing­ton) is unconstitutional.

If you’re inter­est­ed in watch­ing or lis­ten­ing live, tune in to TVW., Wash­ing­ton State’s equiv­a­lent of C‑SPAN. TVW is car­ried by most cable providers (i.e. Fron­tier, Com­cast) and it also streams its sig­nal over the Net.

Here are links to the briefs (note these are all PDFs):

• Ami­cus — Firstate Place Schol­ars Char­ter School, Et Al
• Ami­cus — Nation­al Alliance for Pub­lic Char­ter Schools, Et Al
• Ami­cus — Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Char­ter School Authorizers
• Ami­cus — Pacif­ic Legal Foundation
• Answer­ing Brief and Open­ing Cross-appeal Brief — Respon­dent Intervenors
• Appel­lants Response to Briefs of Ami­cus Curiae
• Brief of Appellants
• Joint Reques­tate to Sup­ple­ment the Record with a Stip­u­la­tion of Addi­tion­al Facts
• Reply Brief — Appellant
• Reply Brief — Respondent
• Reply Brief — Respon­dent Intervenors
• Respon­dent Brief

After oral argu­ments have con­clud­ed, I’ll update this post with analysis.