U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Illinois Green Party Ballot Access Case

On April 2, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Tripp v Scholz, 17-1129. This was an Illinois Green Party case that challenged the Illinois requirements for nominees of unqualified parties to get on the ballot for state legislature. They are so severe, no third party candidates appeared on the Illinois ballot in 2016 for the legislature.

The U.S. Supreme Court has not granted any cert petition filed by a minor party or an independent candidate, involving ballot access, since 1991. Although the Court granted Burdick v Takushi in early 1992, that case (involving write-in votes) was filed by a Democratic Party voter and did not concern third parties or independents directly.

The case that was granted in 1991 was Norman v Reed, an Illinois case.


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U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Illinois Green Party Ballot Access Case — 5 Comments

  1. The rot started in Williams v Rhodes 1968 — 50 years and counting.

    The SCOTUS appointed party HACKS ignore —

    1. Each election is NEW.

    2. Separate is NOT equal — Brown v Bd of Ed 1954

    3. *equal* is in 14 Amdt, Sec. 1 — ie equal ballot access tests for ALL individual candidates for the same office in the same election area.

    The minor parties and independents keep having MORON lawyers unable to detect such 3 points —

    so keep LOSING and LOSING and LOSING.

    NO primaries.
    PR and AppV

  2. Since the Supreme Court has assumed the function of a national election commission, it has failed.

  3. “The U.S. Supreme Court has not granted any cert petition filed by a minor party or an independent candidate, involving ballot access, since 1991.”

    Are there any law review or political science articles that attempt to explain this fact in constitutional or academic terms? The political explanation is too obvious to need stating. But I’m curious about whether there are any possible explanations other than the political one.

  4. The SCOTUS are a basic part of the top monarchs/oligarchs in the USA regime — since 1789

    — trying to maintain the 3 rotted to the core ANTI-Democracy gerrymander systems —

    1. USA H Reps
    2. USA Senate
    3. USA Prez/VP Electoral College

    — with 3 plus 2 causing more appointed SCOTUS HACKS (and appointed lower USA court HACKS).

    PR and AppV

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