Lori Maslow has obtained an extension of time in which to file a cert petition in the U.S. Supreme Court, over her case involving who can circulate a candidate petition in a primary election. Maslow and her husband are not registered to vote in the same party in New York. She wanted to help circulate her husband’s petition to get on the ballot in the primary, but state law made that illegal, because she is not a member of his political party. The 2nd circuit upheld the restriction that only members of a party may circulate candidate petitions to get on that party’s primary ballot.

Her cert petition would have been due in three days, but she has obtained an extension until January 31, 2012, to file. The case is Maslow v Board of Elections in the City of New York.