On February 1, Nebraska State Senator Bob Krist filed a federal lawsuit against the 2016 Nebraska law that raised the number of signatures for a non-presidential independent candidate from 4,000 signatures (for statewide office) to 10% of the number of registered voters. Krist v Gale. Krist is an independent candidate for Governor this year.
The lawsuit also challenges the old law that says independent candidates cannot be called “independent” on the ballot. Instead they have “by petition” printed on the ballot. UPDATE: here is the Complaint. Krist v Gale, 8:18cv-39. The case is assigned to Judge Joseph Bataillon, a Clinton appointee who had a previous case concerning the county distribution requirement for initiatives. He declared the county distribution requirement unconstitutional, but later the Eighth Circuit reversed him by saying the plaintiffs didn’t have standing.
A very slight hope his lawyer can detect that —
1. each election is NEW
2. separate is NOT equal – Brown v Bd of Ed 1954
3. Equal ballot access tests — EQUAL in 14th Amdt, Sec. 1
http://www.kristfornebraska.com/
http://news.legislature.ne.gov/dist10/
https://nebraskalegislature.gov/about/history_unicameral.php
NE survives with the nominally nonpartisan ONE house legislature — BUT with NOT so undercover Donkeys and Elephants
PR and AppV
http://www.kristfornebraska.com/sen_bob_krist_joins_lawsuit_to_overturn_law_restricting_independents
Press Release
http://journalstar.com/read-the-complaint-krist-v-gale/pdf_5ea012b5-b6c7-5e49-b1f1-f9ebc58721b9.html
Complaint
Much of it should be in a separate brief.
It says scores about his character that in the years in the State Senate this hasn’t been addressed, yet when it affects him it all of a sudden “unconstitutional”. Another case of rights for me but not for thee
Perhaps he got hit in his head by a NE tornado / lightning bolt, a herd of NE cows/pigs, etc. and had a magical transformation ???