New York state campaign finance law allows greater contribution limits to candidates of qualified parties, than to candidates of unqualified parties. Last year a U.S. District Court held that disparity to be unconstitutional. The state is appealing. Here is the Second Circuit brief of the Upstate Jobs Party, which had filed the case. Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, 21-2518. The introduction to the brief has a rousing discussion of the benefits that small and minor parties have made to the U.S.