On December 18, No Labels filed this reply brief in No Labels Party v Fontes, 2:23cv-2172. This is the case in which No Labels is suing the Secretary of State, hoping to block anyone from running in the No Labels primary for congress or partisan state office. Arizona law says all qualified parties must nominate by primary.
There will be a hearing in this case on January 5, 2024.
Only read the summary before it gets into legalese, but that argument does make logical sense. I’ll leave legal sense up to lawyers and judges to hash out.
In 1992 the California Green Party filed a very similar case, and the Green Party won in the trial court, but the state appeals court reversed. The California Green Party wanted to have “none of the above” on its primary ballot so that if the primary voters didn’t want the party to nominate a candidate for a particular office, the Green Party primary voters could block the candidacy if “none of the above” got the most votes.
FACTIONS/FRACTIONS OF PUBLIC ELECTORS ARE N-O-T INDEPENDENT EMPIRES REGARDING PUBLIC NOMINATIONS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS
NOOO EXTREMIST PRIMARIES / CAUCUSES / CONVENTIONS FOR OFFICER NOMINATIONS
ONLY NOM PETS / FILNG FEES FOR SUCH NOMINATIONS
Still taking about eating pets? Seek help.
Freedom of association, which does not exist without freedom of dissociation or vice versa, is more important then pubic nominations, pubic officers, or pubic anything. Nom all the pets you want, as long as they’re your pets or with permission from their owner.
Disregard the yelling wacko which thinks or acts like its repetitive GIGO outputs are relevant to reality.
I agree with Biden is a traitor above, and also that Biden is a traitor whose soul is destined to be below.
I think Richard makes a good point, except that this is a different state, time, and most importantly of all, funding level of organisations. A closer parallel it seems, would be Americans Elect, which did succeed in keeping those it didn’t want from running for office under their label, even when they captured state affiliates like Oklahoma which wanted to run Johnson for potus 2012 , and more hazily recall they won against others who wanted to run as AE for various offices in various states in 2012 or later – correct me if I’m wrong.
Americans Elect in Arizona let candidates run for governor, three congressional seats, and several state legislative seats in the 2012 and 2014 elections. There were Americans Elect Party primaries in Arizona in those years.
Big if true. But they did successfully preclude the same thing in other states. I seem to recall other analogous situations more recently, but not particularly.
Huge if accurate. However, they were able to stop the same thing from happening in other states. Not too, although I seem to remember other similar circumstances from more recently. only up
Bots using a translation program can’t be me. F off.