On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court asked New Jersey to respond to the pending cert petition Mazo v Way, 22-1033. This is the case that challenges the New Jersey law on ballot labels for primary candidates. New Jersey lets primary candidates put up to six words on the primary ballot, to give the voters a sense of the candidate’s identity or philosophy. But New Jersey limits the label, by saying if the label mentions a living person, that person must give consent; and if the label mentions a New Jersey corporation, that corporation must give its consent.
The fact that the U.S. Supreme Court wants a response from the state means the justices are at least somewhat interested in the case. The state response is due July 5. Probably the Court won’t decide whether to hear the case until late September, after the Court’s summer recess.
States should be prohibited from printing anything on candidates election ballots except the office to be filled with space for the voter to declare their preference affirmatively by writing in names. Content neutral ballots alone are constitutional.
ONE WORD PARTY NAME FOR LEGIS OFFICES
NONPARTISAN EXEC/JUDIC OFFICES
What did the guy challenging the law want to do?
IF I YELL SOMETHING OFTEN ENOUGH IT MAKES IT TRUE AND EVERYONE WILL AGREE WITH ME AND DO WHAT I SAY IF I JUST REPEAT MYSELF A FEW HUNDRED MILLION MORE TIMES
Richard, from what I read, your statement is false: “if the label mentions a New Jersey corporation, that corporation must give its consent.”
I understand the State’s opinion to be: If the label includes words that match the name of a New Jersey corporation (or a reserved name for a potential corporation), that corporation (or name owner) must give its consent.
There is a difference between using the word “Apple” and mentioning Apple (the tech corporation).
There is a difference between mentioning someone’s name, and making a false claim about them!
There is a difference between making a false claim about someone, and libeling them!!!
You mean if someone calls themselves AZ or PAT the FBI won’t arrest them for felony identity theft or violating an almost certainly nonexistent copyright, much less build a case that will put them in prison for years?
Even if there was anything illegal about doing so, in the real world the Federal Bureau of Investigation, district attorney’s, prosecutors, etc have limited resources, and numerous real criminal conspiracies and widely flogged political hobbyhorses to contend with. Two bozos using the same screen name on some random internet board has less relevance on that list of competing priorities than intestinal parasites in some small rodent in a remote jungle somewhere on the other side of the planet.
first BAN TROLL MORON to use “Joe Biden” and/or *Donald Trump” as a fake poster name in a BAN post ???
would media pay attention and then FBI etc ???
That’s dumber than a box of rocks. Nobody cares who uses satirical impersonations of politicians on an obscure internet forum. The FBI has to contend with trying to outsmart narcotics importation, manufacture, and distribution enterprises of industrial scale, human traffickers, Islamic terrorists, and other real threats, in between various schemes to spy on, manufacture fake evidence against, and try to build specious cases to prosecute Donald Trump and various associates.
Some joker using or less plausibly sharing the name of some politicians or celebrity is a pimple on a gnats ass to the FBI. Really, you could have a drink with an agent off duty, and get some rudimentary clue to the agency workload and how many actual ongoing criminal canals fall through the cracks due lack of resources to deal with all of them or build sufficiently airtight cases.
Media, certainly, are even more distracted,in between covering various bowel movements and changes of underwear by members of the British royal family, a variety of bloody and sensational crime sprees, large numbers of stories about the sky falling imminently, spreading Ukrainian Nazi propaganda, the rote repetition of economically illiterate spins of current and future business climate by Fabian academics, the most recent antics of various race hustlers, et tedious cetera, to even minimally note that some actual or mental child wrote “Joe Biden was here” with his own issue on the wall of a toilet stall at a Macy’s.
Although, with his advanced state of senile dementia, it’s at least somewhat plausible that it could have been the actual Joe Biden that wrote it. But probably not.
Joe Biden would have been at Nordstroms.
PERHAPS THE BAN RESIDENT TROLL MORONS CAN WORK AS SCRIPT WRITERS FOR JB/DJT OR TV LATE NIGHT SO-CALLED COMEDIANS — WITH OR WITHOUT A HOLLYWOOD STRIKE ???
PAT = MORON REVERSE OF TAP — OR VICE-VERSA ???
AI ROBOTS SCANNING THE INTERNET NEED [NOT] TO KNOW ???
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6 JUNE 1944- 8 MAY 1945
MILLIONS MORE DEAD TO GET THE COWARD TYRANT HITLER TO BLOW HIS EVIL BRAINS OUT AND GET HIS CORPSE BURNED –
LATER TAKEN TO MOSCOW ??? — NOW IN PUTIN’S FREEZER ???
— OR LEFT TO ROT AND BE GROUND TO BITS AND DUMPED IN ARTIC OCEAN ???
Sorry, I don’t think there’s a viable market for your troll moron nonsense scripts, AZ. You’re welcome to prove me wrong, but I don’t think you can.