U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama appointee, will hear Newsom v Golden, m.d., 3:22cv-318, on Tuesday, May 10, at 9 a.m. This is the case over the Tennessee Republican Party’s disqualification of a congressional candidate in its own primary. The party says no one can run in its primary who hasn’t voted in three of the last four Republican primaries in the state. The plaintiff-candidate can’t comply because he wasn’t living in Tennessee that long.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Any federal candidate “disqualified” by a party should still be eligible to receive the votes the General Election voters choose to give. Private parties cannot add or subtract from the constitutional qualifications with primary shenanigans.
It’s too late for the plaintiff to qualify as an independent, although the April petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates is probably unconstitutional.