On November 26, Rocky De La Fuente sued Minnesota in federal court, over the law that gives the Republican Party exclusive control over which candidates may be listed on the party’s presidential primary ballot. De La Fuente v Simon, 0:19cv-2995. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge David Doty, a Reagan appointee. Here is the Complaint.
The case depends on the theory that the presidential primary ballot access law violates the U.S. Constitution, because it sets up a ballot access barrier that is not designed to help election administration. De La Fuente’s pending case in Georgia is similar.
ONE more violation of the 1-10 NO Title of Nobility cl. –
special powers for special HACK folks.
dont the major parties have a first amendment right to free association?
@EB,
Minnesota law is contrary to RNC rule 16(d)(5).
Jim Riley,
What does RNC rule 16(d)(5) state?
@MS,
In electing or selecting delegates and alternate delegates to the national convention, no state law shall be observed which hinders, abridges, or denies to any citizen of the United States, eligible under the Constitution of the United States to hold the office of President of the United States or Vice President of the United States, the right or privilege of being a candidate under such state law for the nomination for President of the United States or Vice President of the United States
BUT NO EQUAL requirement that the States MUST *recognize* the primary / caucus / convention nominees for Prez/VP of ANY political party.
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ABOLISH the INSANE minority rule gerrymander EC.
NONPARTISAN AppV – for ALL exec/judic elected offices – pending Condorcet [RCV done correctly]
How many of the near 1,000 FEC Prez candidates are on State/DC Prez primary ballots ???
LONGEST one office ballots ever coming soon ???
— raising all sorts of chances for Florida type ballot disaster messes —
Instructions location- multi-columns, multi-pages, multi-ballots, both sides of ballots, etc. ???
Anybody ever heard of United States v. Classic (313 U.S. 299 (1941))? That case was all about the right of voters to freely associate with candidates. And when a primary election is made a part of the state’s electoral process, just as is the case in Minnesota, candidates MUST be given equal access to the ballot. I’m all for corporate political parties being able to choose their candidates, but denying natural persons their constitutionally guaranteed rights is absolutely unacceptable. And, what about the voters (the members of those parties) who want to advance the nomination of a candidate and who are being denied that right? Anybody ever think about standing up for them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Classic
was a mere 53 years after the 1888 official primaries.
Now a mere 51 years after the 1968 disaster of Williams v Rhodes and its later chain of disasters.
The better headline is “Who isn’t Rocky De La Fuente suing today?”