The ruling was handed down on Monday, October 14. Here is the story from ProPublica, with a link to the court decision embedded in the story.
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Here is the article of which I speak from KSL-TV.
It was pretty much a big nothingburger (and I am not intending to throw shade on the author), until I read the following sentence:
“It [a report] also suggests the Legislature should consider making public the lists of people who sign candidate petitions.”
As many of you know, I have been involved in petitioning since 1988, which in most quarters qualifies as a long time. I think if people were to know that they would go on a public list if they signed any sort of petition, it would very likely hurt the signature acceptance percentage rate for petitioners. I think this is a potentially devastating idea for any sort of petitioning.
It’s too close to the election to change the ballot, wrote US District Court Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, a Trump appointee, even though Cornel West should not have been removed from the ballot by the Secretary of State. The decision suggests that Pennsylvania is violating the U.S. Constitution by requiring independent presidential candidates to submit declarations of candidacy for each presidential elector candidate. The state does not require the nominees of parties that have 15% of the registration to submit any signed declarations for their presidential elector candidates.
Here is the decision in West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24cv-1349.
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According to this story, the bill will be named the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Act. It will be introduced by Republican State Representative David Steffen.
Here is the column, which is authored by Joshua Holzer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.