J Cabou was quoted on Tuscon.com in the article, "Tucson Asks Court to Throw Out State Law Interfering With Election Schedule," regarding his client, the city of Tucson, asking the Arizona Supreme Court to void a 2018 law that seeks to force the city to scrap its odd-year elections.

What is legal, J said, are laws that can be applied not only to all situations but that also are “elastic.” That means any city that finds itself subject to the law has a way of extracting itself by changing policies or anything else so it no longer meets the conditions.

Here, however, J noted that the law is permanent: Once a city’s turnout drops below a trigger point, the city can never get back its local election dates, even if future turnout improves.