The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia has filed this amicus brief in Perry v Judd, the case that challenges Virginia ballot access requirements. The ACLU brief makes a case against the Virginia law that bars out-of-state circulators. The ACLU brief does a good job of explaining that if the state wants to subpoena circulators (in case the state believes a circulator may have committed fraud), there is a method to do that, even if the circulator is not a Virginia resident.
The ACLU brief also mentions the most recent decision striking down a law against out-of-state circulators, the Nebraska decision from 2011 called Citizens in Charge v Gale. The other briefs in this case had not mentioned that precedent. The ACLU brief mentions that the Virginia restriction injures the out-of-state petitioners themselves, and that the law injures voters. Commentary about this issue almost never remembers the rights of petitioners who don’t live in Virginia. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.
Gee – once again –
Each State in the Union is a SOVEREIGN NATION-State.
1776 DOI last para
1777 Art. Confed.
1783 U.S.A.-Brit Peace Treaty
1787 U.S.A. Const. Art. I, Sec. 10 and Art. VII — the first 9 States CREATED/ENACTED the Constitution.
2 more ratified before 4 Mar 1789.
NC and RI were deemed FOREIGN nations until they ratified. See the 1789-1790 U.S.A. laws regarding NC and RI.
VT (State 14-1791) and TX (State 28-1845) were INDEPENDENT sovereign FOREIGN nation-states when they were admitted into the Union.
Too many brain dead lawyers, amicus profs and courts to count.
Any tourists from Afghanistan got off a boat, did some circulating of petitions and then went back to a cave in Afghanistan ???
SOVEREIGN Elector-Voters in a State — EVERYBODY else is a political alien.
VERY sorry BUT – ballot access is NOT a first amendment activity.
Try and find ANY ballot access mentions in 1761-1776 leading up to the DOI.
The SCOTUS legal history MORONS love putting NONSENSE into their JUNK opinions.
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