Jill Stein Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case on Primary Season Matching Funds

On January 12, Jill Stein asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the lower court decision that said it is constitutional for the Federal Election Commission to treat minor party presidential candidates worse than it treats major party presidential candidates, relative to the period when contributions can be matched.  Here is the cert petition for Stein v FEC, 23-771.


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Jill Stein Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case on Primary Season Matching Funds — 10 Comments

  1. On the common sense face of it, Jill’s right. Such a decision clearly flies in the face of the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, as well as the First Amendment. But unfortunately, barring a miracle (or perhaps some partisanship from the right-wing judges, who would be paradoxically doing the concept of free and fair elections a favor in the process), the SCOTUS probably won’t hear her case, and the rigging of the electoral system against opposition parties will continue to worsen.

  2. Without ballot access censorship to create political castes, who is “major” and who is “minor” cannot be objectively determined until AFTER – AFTER all uncensored ballots have been counted from the general election. Objectively, a winning candidate is “major” and ALL losing candidates are “minor”.
    Abolish fascism in elections.

  3. There’s no need for ballots at all. Just count voters in each party’s section of the election hall.

  4. I’ve never voted for Jill Stein, but in this case I have to side with her against FEC dirty tricks.

  5. I agree with Max. Stand up and be counted, show the world that you’re a man!

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