The Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on April 2, 2010, against a law that prohibit circulators for in-lieu of filing fee petitions from working outside their home county and also prohibits them from working outside their home district. A hearing was to have been held on that case on November 1. However, on October 29, the judge canceled the hearing and will decide the case on the briefs. The state has filed a motion, asking that the case be dismissed on the grounds that the law does not injure any of the plaintiffs.
California does not enforce the laws on the residency of in lieu petition circulators. However, Arizona made the same defense in a similar case filed by the Green Party in 2009, but the judge still ruled in favor of the Green Party. When a law prohibits someone from circulating a petition, that chills petitioning, even if the state says it doesn’t enforce the law.
As usual —
Each State is a sovereign NATION-State — since the last paragraph of the 4 July 1776 DOI.
Electors in each office/issue AREA.
ALL other folks in each such area are ALIENS.
Circulators-Electors in each area are akin to Notary Publics — a HIGH public office.
Way too difficult for the SCOTUS MORONS to understand.
The 1st Amdt basically has ZERO to do with ballot access — NOT the problem in 1776-1791 causing the First Amdt to get written — regardless of ALL MORON SCOTUS cases to the contrary.
See the book — Sources of Our Liberties edited by Richard L. Perry — where every word in U.S.A. Const, Amdts 1-8 came from.