Tennessee Alderman Files Federal Lawsuit to Force City to Print Her Party Label on Ballot, Even Though Election is Non-Partisan

On August 17, Jenna Amacher, an Alderman in Tullahoma, Tennessee, filed a federal lawsuit to force the city to print “Republican” next to her name in the next election for Alderman. Amacher v State of Tennessee, m.d., 3:21cv-638. Tennessee law says that unless a city specifies in its charter that it has partisan elections, all city elections will be non-partisan. Here is the Complaint. She is a Republican. On page two, the Complaint says that she “seeks the right to affiliate with her political organization on the voter ballot.”

The Complaint implies that state law prevents the Republican Party from endorsing her, but there is nothing in any state law mentioned in the Complaint that stops a political party from endorsing a candidate in a non-partisan election. The Complaint does not mention the U.S. Supreme Court decision Timmons v Twin Cities Area New Party, which upheld Minnesota’s ban on fusion and which said there is no constitutional right for candidates to have a party label on ballots. Thanks to the Institute for Free Speech for the news of this case.


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