On February 24, Cornel West filed this brief in U.S. District Court in Ortiz v North Carolina State Board of Elections, e.d., 5:24cv-420. West won injunctive relief last year and he and his party were placed on the ballot. Now he hopes to obtain a ruling that the Board’s actions last year were unconstitutional. That would protect petitioning minor parties in the future from being told that even though the county boards said they had enough valid signatures, the petition would not be honored.