On July 22, No Labels filed its brief in the Ninth Circuit in No Labels Party v Fontes, 24-563. This is the case on whether a party has a freedom of association right to block anyone from running in its primary for offices for which the party doesn’t want candidates. No Labels only wanted a presidential candidate.
No Labels is no longer participating in elections, but both sides want the issue to be settled. This will be an interesting case on the constitutional rights of political parties.
PARTY = FACTION / FRACTION OF ALL VOTERS
PUBLIC NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS FOR PUBLIC OFFICES BY PUBLIC LAWS.
PARTIES NOT INDEPENDENT EMPIRES
No Labels is no longer participating in elections = MOOT CASE
It seems a shame that the catalyst for such a case, had to be a party that didn’t manage to field a presidential candidate and wasn’t interested in seeking any lower offices.
Dear No Labels, now will you please be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can’t justify your existence, if you are not interested in running for any office besides the presidency, if you cannot even be bothered to field a candidate for that office, then clearly there is no use for you, because your party does not benefit any voter, and it can’t be very much more than a scam to yourself either…