Public Citizen has filed this amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Carney v Adams, 19-309, the case over Delaware’s exclusion of independent and minor party registrants from serving on most judicial posts. The Public Citizen brief properly points out that the lower courts were correct to invalidate the law, but they used the wrong analysis. The lower courts handled this case as a patronage case, but should have instead considered it a freedom of association case.