TERM LIMITS IN COURT

Term Limits Get Reprise, This Time in Court
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A decisive round in the battle over who can run for re-election in New York City in November played out on Monday in a packed courtroom in Brooklyn, where lawyers for the city and for a group challenging an extension of term limits argued their cases before a federal district judge Charles P. Sifton.

Mayor Bloomberg signed the law allowing him and most other elected city officials to seek third terms, circumventing two plebiscites that set two consecutive four-year terms in public office as the limit for all of them. One primary issue in the lawsuit filed by the challengers is whether the law extending term limits violated the voters’ constitutional rights to free speech.

(More than two months after signing the controversial law allowing him to seek a third term, Mayor Bloomberg still has not sought the required federal approval for it.”)