New York Candidate Files Brief in His Lawsuit Over Ban on “Independence” as a Party Label

Posted on by February 19, 2025

On February 17, Jim Walden filed this brief in Walden v Kosinski, e.d., 1:25cv-72. This is the lawsuit filed by an independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. He wants his ballot label to be “Independence”. New York in general permits independent candidates to choose a partisan label for the ballot. But a new law forbids any qualified party from having the word “Independence” in its name. Walden challenges that law on First Amendment grounds.

The New York City Board of Elections has notified the court that it takes no position, so it will be up to the New York State Board to defend the law.

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New York Candidate Files Brief in His Lawsuit Over Ban on “Independence” as a Party Label — 24 Comments

  1. how many banned words/phrases in the tyrant commie NY regime ???

    freedom ??? liberty ??? anti-tyrant ??? etc

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  19. There’s also a bill in the legislature that would disenroll everyone from the independence party.

  21. They previously enacted a law that banned a party from being called the independence party, but that didn’t change the status of people who were already registered as members.

    There was a bill to disenroll party members introduced last year that passed the Senate before dying in the Assembly election law committee. The same sponsor has reintroduced the bill for this session, S 8224.

  23. I suppose, except that if the name ban does get ruled unconstitutional, then the disenrollment would prove automatic. Recall what happened when Maine tried to disenroll all the libertarians a few years back.

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