On August 17, a state court in Philadelphia removed the Green Party nominee for City Commissioner from the November 3, 2015, on the grounds that he didn’t have enough signatures. The candidate will appeal. The judge who made that decision was not moved by the fact that last month, the procedure for checking signatures had been held unconstitutional as applied to Green Party nominees. Immediately after the ruling, the judge announced that he is retiring effective immediately and that this had been his last case. Thanks to Larry Otter and Carl Romanelli for this news.
Looks like the judge retired before having to reap the consequences of making a ruling that was UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Coward. Hopefully the next judge isn’t as crooked, but this is Pennsylvania we’re talking about here, they’re almost as bad as our government here in Illinois.
If the next judge indeed upholds this judge’s ruling, this might have to go to the Supreme Court. If something is ruled unconstitutional, it’s unconstitutional, no matter how badly the anti-democracy D’s and R’s want it to be otherwise. We Greens and third party and independent candidates in general need to fight this sort of corruption.