On August 21, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III upheld Pennsylvania’s residency requirement for petitioners who circulate primary petitions. De La Fuente v Cortes, m.d., 1:16cv-1696. The judge said the law is needed to protect the associational rights of the Democratic and Republican Parties, because if out-of-state circulators were permitted for primary petitions, those circulators might not be members of the same party. De La Fuente then appealed that decision to the Third Circuit.
On June 18, 2018, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s department wrote a letter to the Third Circuit, saying De La Fuente’s appeal should be dismissed because the state does not intend to enforce the residency requirement for primary petition circulators in the future.
Unconstitutional written stuff is still unconstitutional regardless of what any hack AG says or writes.
Any FELON FAKE circulators from outside the State ??? — who may collect sigs and then destroy the signed nominating petitions —
or who may forge sigs and then try to get the sigs approved ???
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Again – each State is a NATION-State — last para 1776 DOI.
Internal politics – external folks — none of your business.
Too many moron judges to count – esp in SCOTUS.
Pennsylvania Attorney General asks that the case be dismissed saying he won’t enforce the regulation. This tactic has been seen before. It leaves offending regulations in place to be tried again later.