On January 21, U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall heard Libertarian Party of Connecticut v Merrill, 3:15cv-1851. This is the case on Connecticut’s ban on out-of-state circulators. The hearing lasted approximately 90 minutes. A decision is expected in a few weeks.
Constitutional election law cases filed by minor parties or independent candidates are pending in 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. The ACLU is representing the plaintiffs in five of those cases: California, Connecticut, Georgia, New Hampshire, and South Dakota. The ACLU is easily the most important champion of voting rights for voters who want to vote for minor party and independent candidates. Everyone who cares about those issues should support the ACLU.
Each State in the U.S.A. is a NATION-State for its *internal* politics stuff.
1776 DOI, last para.
1777 Art. Confed
1783 USA-Brit Peace Treaty
1787 USA Const – esp. Art. VII — i.e. the first 9 sovereign States enacted the USA Const.
See 1845 admission of the *foreign* State of Texas into the U.S.A.
IE — regardless of ALL of the MORON court cases — *foreign* folks have ZERO power to intervene in the internal politics of a State — i.e. ALL nomination and election stuff.
1st Amdt stuff is TOTALLY separate from such nomination and election stuff.
NO need to cite ALL of the super moron SCOTUS junk opinions from political Hell.
People have a right to free speech regardless of which state they are in. Also, this affects federal elections, not just state and local elections.