U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chambers will hear Daly v Tennant on September 22, Thursday, at 1 p.m., in the federal courthouse in Huntington, West Virginia. The issue is whether it violates the U.S. Constitution for West Virginia to certify 17 petitioning (independent and unqualified party) candidates for the November ballot, and then remove them on September 16 because they didn’t comply with a requirement that didn’t appear to exist until September 15. UPDATE: here is a newspaper story about the hearing.
Does anyone know if this is open to the public? If so, should de-certified candidates attend? Would that be good strategy, bad strategy, or irrelevant?
Richard, Are you sure the hearing is at 1:00? Someone from the CPWVa said he thought it was at 10:00 am.
I just looked on Pacer and it says 1 pm. Of course it is open to the public. The Huntington US Courthouse is at 845 Fifth Ave. Visitors to federal courthouses always must go thru metal detectors and once in a while there is a delay waiting in that line, so if you are planning to go, get there early.
It is always good to have an audience.
The state’s response is due Wednesday, 4 pm, September 21.
Didn’t Bush vs. Gore in 2000 state that you can’t change rules in the middle of an election?
Curious to know what was in the state’s response.