The 7th circuit will hear Stone v Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago, on April 4, Monday, at 9:30 a.m, in courtroom 2721. The 7th circuit courthouse is at 219 South Dearborn Street. The issue is whether requiring 12,500 signatures for candidates for citywide office is too severe, especially given that voters can only sign one petition for each office. Chicago has non-partisan elections and ballot access is the same for all candidates for citywide office.
What magic number of signatures are the plaintiffs claiming is OK ???
Courts don’t need to decide what the requirements should be. They just need to judge the existing law.
But the plaintiffs point out that no other big city requires more than 3,750 signatures to run for Mayor. That is New York city’s requirement.
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Each State and local regime is an independent regime — regardless of any other regime in the Universe.
The SCOTUS MORONS love picking numbers out of thin air — such as the percentage deviation for gerrymander districts in the State and local regimes.