On March 19, the U.S. Supreme Court asked Mississippi to file a response to the cert petition filed by Brian Moore, in the case over whether Mississippi should have put Moore on the ballot for President in 2008. The case is Moore v Hosemann, 09-982.
This is the second indicator that the Court may be interested in this case. The first indicator was when Scotusblog flagged this case as a cert petition of interest. Scotusblog is a well-regarded news service that covers developments in the U.S. Supreme Court more closely than any other news source.
If the Court does take the case, it will be the first time since 1991 that the Court has taken a ballot access case filed with that Court by a minor party or independent candidate.
The recent U.S.S.C. appointment had in the past — if memory serves me well — said something somewhat fair minded about ballot access law.
Mark Brown, the attorney in this case, is my hero.
# 2 Attention — any and all GENIUS lawyers.
Separate is still NOT equal.
Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954
NOT brought up by armies of MORON lawyers since 1968 in the various ballot access cases in the Supremes.
EQUAL as in the EQUAL Protection Clause in the 14th Amdt, Sec. 1.
WAKE UP those GENIUS lawyers 24/7 and HAMMER *EQUAL* into their heads to cause them to put it on paper for GENIUS judges to look at.
Did the Elephants ever have any problems in having ballot access in the ex-slave States ??? — especially after the Donkeys took over after 1877 (i.e. the END of Reconstruction) ???
There were no ballot access problems in 1877 because there were no government-printed ballots back then.
Any problems for Elephant ballot access AFTER government ballots came along in the de facto one party Donkey ex-slave States — circa 1890-1940 ???
At least the Donkeys had their top 2 runoff primaries for decades.
The worst Republican ballot access problems in the deep South were in Louisiana in 1916 and in Georgia 1943-1964.
The law in Louisiana in 1916 was such that the Republicans weren’t a qualified party and were being forced to petition to get their presidential candidate on the ballot. The party sued instead and ruled the 1916 law to violate due process. I read that in a New Orleans newspaper but I have never found the actual court ruling.
The law in Georgia 1943-1964 forced the Republican Party, if it hadn’t polled 5% for any particular office in the last election, to petition in order to nominate for that office, which kept the Republicans from running for practically everything except President.
Louisiana has registered voters by party since 1908. I would certainly like to know what was behind that, since Florida and North Carolina are the only other ex-Confederate states that have party registration.
Georgians elected the Republican Bo Callaway to the US House in 1964, and Callaway won a plurality of the vote for governor in 1966.
# 6 Does BAN have the greatest archive of election stuff on Mother Earth ever ???
What is the earliest recorded election law, election result, election case ??? Back to about 4,000 B.C. ???
Are the Donkeys/Elephants now the same regarding ballot access since the 1964 election in all States ???– i.e. lots of ex-Donkeys in the ex-slave States becoming Elephants — since the national Donkeys became totally leftwing — resulting in the 2010 Donkeys in the gerrymander Congress.