On September 8, U.S. District Court Judge Glenn T. Suddaby, a Bush Jr. appointee, struck down a New York state campaign finance law that lets qualified parties give more money to their nominees than unqualified parties may give. Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, n.d., 6:18cv-459. Here is the 70-page Opinion. Thanks to Joe Burns for this news.

The Upstate Jobs Party is active in upstate New York, and has had several nominees during the last five years, but it has never been a qualified party. It has never run a candidate for statewide office, so under the narrow definition of a qualified party in New York, no matter how much support it has, it can never be a qualified party until it does decide to run statewide candidates.