Philip Haney
Republican · AR · Pope County Justice of the Peace, District 1
Philip Haney is the incumbent Pope County Justice of the Peace for District 1 and the officially listed candidate for the November 3, 2026 general election.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 2 records
Was named, in his official role as a Pope County justice of the peace, in a lawsuit by a casino-opponent group. The group challenged the quorum court's 2019 vote backing a Cherokee Nation casino bid without a local election. On 2020-09-17 the Arkansas Supreme Court dismissed the group's appeal as moot because the county had repealed the election rule (2020 Ark. 279).
September 17, 2020
Source: law.justia.com
Signed a newspaper opinion piece on 2020-03-01 with four other Pope County justices of the peace. The piece defended the quorum court's support for a Cherokee Nation casino deal. Under that deal, the Cherokee Nation offered nearly $40 million to local governments and nonprofits. The signers also disputed campaign ads about an investigator's finding that county officials broke the open-meetings law.
March 1, 2020
Source: arktimes.com
Past race Philip Haney ran in:
- Pope County Justice of the Peace District 1 · November 3, 2026 · Pope County, Arkansas · incumbent