on June 12, New Jersey Secretary of State Dale Caldwell said he will keep Lana Leguia on the November ballot. She is the Libertarian nominee for U.S. House, 7th district. The Republican Party had challenged her ballot position because she used out-of-state circulators, and the Administrative law Judge had said he would not do a constitutional analysis of the restriction. The restriction has never been repealed even though New Jersey lost a lawsuit on this issue in 2021 in Arsenault v Way.
Since the the New Jersey Republican Party has said it will sue the Secretary of State.
Hopefully the GOP will win. Using illegal alien petition harvesters is about as horrible of a crime as I can imagine. I would consider it a crime against humanity which should come with a public death penalty for anyone who is complicit in any manner.
What should really suffer the death penalty is the so-called “libertarian” lemon party.
We don’t need fat antifa commies like her on the ballot.
“She” is a trantifa terrorist?
Is it a man? I didn’t look hard enough. I just saw rolls and rolls of fat
She’s a communist.
Here is the SOS final decision.
https://www.facebook.com/LeguiaNJLiberty/posts/the-republican-state-committee-is-appealing-sos-caldwells-decision-we-are-ready-/863563540154204/
The language is somewhat confusing. The “petitioner” is the party who has petitioned the SOS to reject the petition (i.e., the Republican Party or a person acting on their behalf), the “respondent” is the candidate whose petition is being challenged.
In New Jersey petition challenges are first heard by an Administrative Law Judge, who is not a judicial official, but part of the executive branch. They more typically are making fact-based decisions (e.g., is a signer registered, live in the district, actually sign the petition, etc.). The Administrative Law Judge made an **Initial Decision**.
The SOS then makes a **Final Decision** where he can Accept, Reject, or Modify the decision of the Administrative Law Judge. In this case, the Administrative Law Judge determined that a number of signatures had been gathered by out-of-state circulators, which is illegal under New Jersey statute. Not counting those signatures meant that the petition did not have the requisite number of signatures.
The Administrative Law Judge discussed why the statute might be unconstitutional, but declined to make that part of their determination. In effect the Administrative Law Judge was making a record on which the Secretary of State or a New Jersey court could modify the decision.
In other states a person performing the same or similar function may be designated as a Hearing Officer, Hearing Examiner, Referee, or Adjudicator. This might more accurately reflect their authority.
The New Jersey Republican party is free to appeal the SOS decision in the judicial system.
THE ADMIN LAW LEGIS/EXEC/JUDIC ROT IS MORE TYRANNY.
TOTAL SEPARATION OF POWERS.
Rep. Kean, the endangered Republican incumbent in NJ-7 is going to lose to his Democratic challenger whoever else is on the ballot. He has not been seen in public for months and he is reportedly very sick. But the GOP knows that they will lose in a landslide with any other candidate in this tossup district.
NJ GOP SHOULD APPEAL.
The Republicans are running scared! I just donated again to Lana!