News from California: “The Supreme Court has scheduled a special January 10 oral argument for the Redistricting writ petition.  It’s been only 19 days since the court agreed to decide the petition and set an “extremely expedited briefing schedule” that will allow “oral argument in this matter as early as the first two weeks in January 2012, and the filing of an opinion in this matter as early as the end of January 2012.””