O June 5, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman issued an order in Bilyeu v Esparza, w.d., 1:21cv-1089. This is the case over the 2019 Texas law that candidates who seek to be nominated at a convention must have paid the filing fee before they can be considered. In Texas, small ballot-qualified parties nominate by convention, not primary.
Judge Pitman denied the state’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, and scheduled a trial for September 8, 2025 (not 2024). He wrote, “It is a reasonable possibility that this filing fee structure does little to advance Texas’s interest in preventing ballot overcrowding or ensuring public support.”
The Texas laws says that filing fees paid by convention candidates are kept by the government. But filing fees paid by candidates running in a primary are given to those political parties. The ruling says it is plausible that the Texas scheme violates freedom of association for convention parties, and also violates the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Great decision. Political parties should not be scammed into thinking that legislatures and not them are best to decide how to select their candidates.
2025. ???
— STATIST HACKS GET PAST THE 2024 ELECTION ???
https://apnews.com/article/iran-presidential-election-jalili-pezeshkian-qalibaf-189a89c3a9c04be1af83ab684e213558
AT LEAST APPEARANCE OF AN *** ELECTION *** BY SOME VOTERS ???
WHICH SUPER-EXTREMIST WILL WIN IN THE TYRANT REGIME ???
Stop whining and pay the fees!
ANY BRIEF WITH A MENTION OF 1954 BROWN V BD OF ED ???
When had there ever been a legal case which applied the idiotic brown decision to elections?
https://www.cnn.com/travel/paris-catacombs-eiffel-tower-apartment/index.html
WILL B/T GO TO PARIS OLYMPICS AND MERGE WITH THE OLDE UNDERGROUND DEAD —
SINCE B/T ARE BOTH HALF PLUS DEAD ???
Only a troll bot programmed by a retard moron could compare brain dead Biden to the amazing and powerful leader Trump who will save America again next year. We should all be on our knees to Trump.
@AZ,
“Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment — even though the physical facilities and other “tangible” factors of white and Negro schools may be equal.”
What an idiotic decision that has absolutely ruined this country, along with so many others since the 1930s, but mostly since that one!
It was evil, not stupid. Those inu6dtices knew what they were doing. Let’s call it what it is.
The sane ought to be said, of course, of the improperly adopted 14th amendment itself.
*same
* injustices
How does one defend supporting filing fees, especially ones where the uniparty gets its candidates’ fees and the uniparty government keeps third parties fees?
@Save America
Don’t kneel before anyone but God. Biden and Trump are two largely interchangeable heads of the same Apocalyptic beast.
NO! Trump is the Second Coming of Jesus!
Pig Farmer is correct. Brown decision was evil. I said it was stupid from our perspective, not theirs.
Yes, and I’m sure you’ll agree, he was right about the 14th amendment as well.