On April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Libertarian Party of Alabama v Merrill, 21-1288. This is the case over the Alabama law that gives the list of registered voters free to qualified parties, but charges an unqualified party that is petitioning $37,000 to get the list.
In 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court had summarily affirmed a U.S. District Court decision that said just the opposite. This is one more example of the Court back-tracking on its older favorable precedents. It also continues an unbroken 31-year habit of rejecting all election law cert petitions filed by a minor party or an independent candidate.
One more disaster loss for the LP and its so-called expert lawyers.
New Age SCOTUS hacks totally ignoring 1954 Brown v Bd of Ed ???
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Last hope –
18 States with voter pets for state const amdts.
PR
APPV
TOTSOP
An example of how elections are managed in a fascist police state.
The court has been bought and paid for a long time ago, starting right around the same time politicians have been.
How much money will the party owe to cover the state’s legal bills?
nothing. In federal court, there is no provision for the government to ask the other side for attorneys fees if the government wins.
This is rotten. They should hear this case.
Didn’t the Alabama libertarians have to pay the state attorney fees in the stein case in which they were a coplaintiff about a decade or so back? Was that not a federal case?
Certainly not surprising given their 30 plus years of not taking third party appeals. The decision in the 11th was sadly not surprising either.
Looked it up. Stein v Alabama was a federal case.
There was a case in which the Alabama libertarians ended up owing the state a lot of money for attorney’s fees several years ago; was that a different case from Stein v Alabama?