WSJ columnist James Freeman writes that discovery is underway in three No Labels lawsuits against the Democratic Party in its efforts to harm a potential No Labels presidential ticket’s ballot access and popularity in 2024.
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Courthouse News Service has this article about the lawsuit filed a few days ago against the California top-two system, Peace & Freedom Party et al v Weber.
Here is a Newsweek story about the recent news about dirty tricks directed against No Labels by Democratic Party-linked individuals.
It appears the information is being revealed due to subpoenas in the lawsuit No Labels v NoLabels.com, filed in federal court in Delaware in 2023. Democratic Party activists had set up a website called “NoLabels.com” which apparently tried to fool viewers into thinking it was a website of No Labels. The parody website put up content designed to make it appear that No Labels supported Donald Trump.
Some of the defendants in the Delaware lawsuit then filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., to quash the subpoenas, but apparently that wasn’t successful. The two D.C. lawsuits are Third Way v No Labels, 1:24-mc-00097, and Dimitri Mehlhorn v No Labels, 1:24-mc-00101.
On November 25, Florida Congressmember Michael Waltz said he will resign from the U.S. House next month. The Governor then called a special election for his seat, which will be on April 1, the same date as the special election for the First District. Waltz is a Republican and represents the Sixth District, which includes Daytona Beach.
On November 12, the Tennessee Libertarian Party filed this opening brief in the Sixth Circuit in Lewis v Hargett, 24-5856. This is the case that challenges the Tennessee petition requirement for groups to qualify as a party. The law is so severe, no one has complied with it since 1968. It requires 56,083 signatures.
Because the petition for a party is so difficult, minor parties always run their nominees using the independent candidate procedure. But then they don’t have their party name on the ballot next to their nominees. This causes voter confusion, because the label “independent” is incorrect, and doesn’t give the voter any guidance about the actual party name. The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized that voter confusion is an evil.