On September 21, Pennsylvania filed this brief in West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24cv-1349. This is Cornel West’s lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s policy on paperwork for presidential elector candidates. Pennsylvania does not require the presidential elector candidates of a major party to file any documents whatsoever. But it requires presidential elector candidates pledged to independent and minor party presidential candidates to file notarized statements of candidacy. If even one elector on the state fails to do so, the presidential nominee is removed from the ballot.

In 2024, this law causes the removal of the presidential nominees of the Cornel West independent candidacy and the presidential nominees of the Constitution Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.