U.S. District Court Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr., will hold a trial in Green Party of Tennessee v Hargett on July 12-13 in Nashville. The issue is the state’s ballot access law for newly qualifying parties, which requires 33,816 valid signatures, even though the state only requires 25 signatures for an independent candidate (or 275 for an independent presidential candidate). A second issue is the state’s failure to have any administative procedure for a group to contest a filing that it failed to have enough valid signatures.
This case was filed in 2011 and is the oldest pending constitutional ballot access case in the nation. The plaintiffs are the Green and Constitution Parties. The Libertarian Party may intervene.
1. Every election continues to be NEW.
2. What genius judge can detect the EQUAL in the EQUAL Protection Clause in 14th Amdt, Sec. 1 ???
The SCOTUS robot party hack MORONS have been unable to do so regarding EQUAL ballot access since Williams v. Rhodes in 1968.
You know at this point Demo Rep, nobody reads your posts. We just skip over them.
New Age juveniles skip over lots of stuff — due to their 1 second or less attention spans.
Tennessee is the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee’s home state. I do not know whether or not Tennessee has voter registration by party, but part of the suit should certainly point out that Darrell Castle can’t very practically petition/run as an independent (try to use the 275 rule) when he is a national CP nominee.