On August 27, the Nevada Democratic Party and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. settled the lawsuit that had been filed to keep him off the ballot.  The judge signed an agreement in which the Democratic case is dismissed “with prejudice”, which means that if it were to be filed again, the assumption would be that it had already lost.

In exchange, Kennedy withdrew from the Nevada ballot, which he had been wanting to do anyway.  Otherwise it would have been too late for him to withdraw.  Nevada is considered a swing state, and Kennedy doesn’t want to be on the ballot in swing states.

The Democratic challenge had claimed that Kennedy couldn’t be an independent in Nevada, because he is a minor party nominee in certain other states.  That challenge was exceedingly weak because a presidential election technically is 51 separate elections for presidential electors, and the 51 separate elections have nothing to do with each other.  Furthermore every presidential candidate running outside the two major parties who had polled at least 25,000 votes nationwide has always used a mixture of methods to get on the ballot.  And no court had ever ruled that a presidential candidate can’t be on the ballot in one state because of his or her activity in another state.  The Nevada case was Rockefeller v Aguilar, First Judicial District, 24 OC 00011.