On November 18, the Arizona Green Party sued to overturn an Arizona law that won’t let non-residents circulate petitions to recognize a new or previously unqualified political party. The party also sued over the deadline for such petitions, as applied to the 2010 election. The legislature in 2009 moved the deadline for such petitions from March to February. The party does not allege that the new deadline is unconstitutional on its face, but that due process requires that the state not implement the earlier deadline in 2010, since the change was made while the process was underway.
The case is Arizona Green Party v Bennett, 2:09-cv-2412. It was assigned to Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee. The 9th circuit ruled last year that Arizona may not ban out-of-state circulators, in a case filed by Ralph Nader in 2004 when he was an independent presidential candidate. In response, the 2009 session of the Arizona legislature legalized out-of-state circulators for independent presidential candidate petitions, but kept the residency requirement in place for all other types of petitions.
Bring in armies of FOREIGN folks (legal and illegal) to circulate petitions ???
More and more EVIL stupidity in the courts ??? Duh.
AREA — Citizen Electors-Voters residing in such A-R-E-A = THE political power in such AREA.
Everybody else is an ALIEN — from outer space.
Too much for the MORONS in the courts to understand ???
What day will Civil WAR II start – due to the MORONS in the New Age so-called courts ???
Shouldn’t the court ruling in the Nader case have thrown out the out-of-state circulator ban for all types of petitions in Arizona?
Yes. The 2009 legislature did not act rationally when it passed a bill that eliminates the restriction for only one type of petition.
The courts long ago screwed up the petition stuff in
(A) the 1st Amdt with
(B) ballot access via voter petitions for candidates and ballot issues.
How many States had ANY voter petitions for ANY candidates or ballot issues in 1789-1791 ???
Par for the course in the MORON courts — who absolutely love perverting legal history and the English language.
“Richard Says:
November 19th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Yes. The 2009 legislature did not act rationally when it passed a bill that eliminates the restriction for only one type of petition.”
Shouldn’t the court ruling override the legislature and Secretary of State’s office?