On August 2, the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion in Hero v Lake County Election Board, 21-2793. The issue was whether election officials had the right to exclude a Republican candidate for local office from the primary ballot, which they did because the party objected to his past support for independent candidates. The opinion says the plaintiff was always free to run as an independent candidate.
This outcome is surprising. The Seventh Circuit had never before issued any opinion giving political parties this much power. The Ninth Circuit has rejected similar lawsuits in the past. The Eleventh Circuit had upheld the right of the Republican Parties of Florida and Georgia to exclude David Duke from its presidential primaries, and the Eighth Circuit had upheld the right of the Republican Party to exclude Rocky De La Fuente from its 2020 presidential primary, but there are no similar circuit decisions that relate to primaries other than presidential primaries.
one more brain dead opin.
parties = factions of PUBLIC Electors-Voters.
top party hacks [faction of a faction] are NOT independent empires.
Disloyal Republicans should not be on any ballots. Like disloyal Americans, which is basically the same thing, they should be hung by the neck til dead.
It is unfortunate that the then enemy occupied GOP did not welcome David Duke. Hopefully the new and much approved GOP we have now will make room for David Duke and those of us who know him and have stood by him and backed all his efforts for decades.
Disloyal to some party HACK TYRANT like Trump ???
More disloyalty NOW.
Disloyal to Trump = disloyal to the USA. Disloyalty = treason. The penalty for treason is death. What do you all think is the best and most funnest way to execute those who are disloyal to Trump? I believe in making something fun and entertaining out of what you have to do anyway but maybe that’s just me.