FROM CALIFORNIA comes the cry: Order in the court–even as recall candidates try to stay on an orderly course. A day after three 9th Circuit justices put the kibosh on the October 7 election, the same federal appeals court gave California’s secretary of state and other “interested parties” (translation: the recall committees) until 2:00 p.m. Wednesday to file arguments explaining whether or not they want an 11-judge panel to hear an appeal. At least one recall committee–Rep. Darrell Issa’s Rescue California–has an appeal ready to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. But first it wants to see how the 9th Circuit acts.

Meanwhile, on the recall trail, it was business as usual. Republicans Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock met separately with ex-candidate Peter Ueberroth, fishing for an endorsement (Arnold also held an “immigrants only” town hall meeting in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon). Cruz Bustamante was more successful on the endorsement front, earning nods from the Sierra Club, Vote the Coast, and the California League of Conservation Voters (officially, those were “no on recall, yes on Bustamante” endorsements).