On May 12, U.S. District Court Waverly Crenshaw, an Obama appointee, issued an order in Newsom v Golden, m.d., 3:22cv-318. The issue was action by the Tennessee Republican Party to keep Robby Starbuck Newsom off the August 2022 Republican primary ballot as a candidate for U.S. House, 5th district. The party has a bylaw saying no one can run in its primary who has not voted in three of the last four Republican primaries. Newsom couldn’t comply with that rule because he hadn’t lived in Tennessee long enough.
The order says that Newsom is guilty of laches, because he was barred from the ballot on April 19 but he didn’t sue until May 2. It also suggests that parties have a freedom of association to control who runs in its primaries. The order acknowledges the precedents that strike down laws that add to the constitutional qualifications, but finds that the issue is not clear-cut. Therefore, because injunctions can only be issued when it is clear the moving party is very likely to win the case eventually, relief was denied.
Hacks now free to add last second added qualifs / disqualifs for ALL PUBLIC offices ???
On to SCOTUS — again and again.
Primaries are not elections to a public office and thus have no qualification standards. Parties should have the right of freedom of association.
The garbage comment on May 12, 2022 at 6:56 pm is from Alden Link.
The garbage comment on May 12, 2022 at 6:56 pm is from Alden Link.
Why is it garbage? It’s on topic and if you think he’s wrong please explain why . I think he’s right on this one,and wrong on a lot of other stuff but I could be wrong too. Maybe you could change my mind if you actually tried instead of your usual hypocritical dismissive childishness.
Seriously? Penis monster? It almost seems as if Alden is doing a false fag against himself.
I meant flag. My bad.
^Andy tell^
If Alden was Andy G there wouldn’t be anything false about it.
United States v. Classic, 313 US 299 (1941)
primaries — part of the election process.
Is az Andy Z?
Is Andy ‘az’ Z related to Jon “Jonny Z” Zazula, who died this year?