On December 9, the Sixth Circuit issued a three-page order in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, 15-4270. The party had asked the Sixth Circuit for an injunction, putting it on the ballot for the 2016 election. The grounds (in the Sixth Circuit) are that the 2013 ballot access law violates the State Constitution.
The Sixth Circuit says it has no jurisdiction in this case now. The U.S. District Court still hasn’t ruled on another argument in the case, that Ohio applied its campaign finance laws in 2014 in a discriminatory fashion to block ballot access. The Sixth Circuit order says the party must wait for the U.S. District Court to rule.
Judges appointed by Democrats and/or Republicans can always seem to come up with some excuse to keep competition off the ballot!
That’s okay we just need to win California, Texas, Florida, and another state to force the election to the House of Reps. Focus on those four states and then flood the House with Libertarian congressmen/woman.
Even if the Ohio Libertarian Party can’t win this lawsuit (and it isn’t over yet), it can always get the LP presidential nominee on the ballot as an independent, which requires 5,000 valid signatures by August 2016. Also the party says it will try to get 30,560 valid signatures to re-qualify as a party; that petition is due July 6.