On March 22, a lower state court in Nebraska released a 9-page opinion in Nebraska Republican Party v Gale, Lancaster County district court, CI 12-1102. this is the case in which the Republican Party argued that Bob Kerrey should not be on the Democratic May 2012 primary as a candidate for U.S. Senate because he is not validly registered.
The written order matches what the judge said orally on March 21, that states cannot require congressional candidates to be registered voters. The opinion says, “States clearly cannot impose voter registration or residency requirements on candidates for U.S. Senate…the State of Nebraska does not have the constitutional authority to impose a voter registration requirement as a qualification for candidacy. Consequently, anything to do with voter registration can have nothing to do with whether candidate filing forms were properly filed.” The decision cites Schaefer v Townsend, the 9th circuit opinion that came to the same conclusion. It does not cite the 10th circuit decision that agreed, Campbell v Davidson.
Keep suing the robot party hacks to bankrupt them.
The 1787 folks were aware that the State party hacks might play their added qualifications EVIL game.
Thus – the qualifications for U.S.A. Rep and Senator in the 1787 Const.
A bit more – the State gerrymander robot party hacks made it very difficult for the Second Continental Congress in 1775-1781 and the Art. Confed. Congress in 1781-1787 to operate.
i.e. the American Revolutionary WAR was barely won — only with the help of the French regime — which paid the price by being destroyed in the 1789 French Revolution.
Thus the 1787 Const language making the 1787 Const. gerrymander Congress more or less independent of the State regimes.