On September 23, Liz Cheney, speaking on the Rachel Maddow show, said a new political party may be needed in the U.S. See this story. Thanks to Brian Hauptli for the link.
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On September 21, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put him on the ballot. Team Kennedy v Berger, 24A285. He had been kept off, even though he had enough valid signatures, because he put an address on his declaration of candidacy that was questioned.
Here is the filing. He filed it only three days after he lost in the Second Circuit. The U.S. On September 23, the Supreme Court has asked for a response by Wednesday, September 25.
In a somewhat similar Nevada Green Party ballot access appeal, the Green Party took seven days to file in the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Nevada Democratic Party and the Secretary of State of Nevada criticized the Green Party for taking that long.
The Oregon Working Families Party is running its own member for State Treasurer, Mary King. See her website here.
It is very unusual for the Working Families Party to nominate its own members for statewide office in any state. The Working Families Parties of New York, Connecticut, and South Carolina never failed to cross-nominate the Democratic nominee, for all statewide offices.
The Oregon Green Party has also nominated King.
Both federal and state courts in Michigan have ruled that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, cannot withdraw, partly because it would leave the party that nominated him, the Natural Law Party, with no nominees. However, the Natural Law Party has a nominee for Governor of Wayne State University, a partisan statewide race.
Therefore, even if Kennedy had withdrawn in Michigan, the Natural Law Party would still be extremely likely to retain its place on the ballot for future elections. Minor party candidates for Michigan’s partisan statewide elections always poll enough votes to keep their party on the ballot. The vote test is only 1% of the winning candidate’s vote total for Secretary of State in the last Secretary of State election. No minor party has ever run for a statewide partisan educational post and failed to win enough votes.
Here is the Michigan candidate list. The educational statewide offices are toward the back of the list.
On September 20, independent presidential candidate Shiva Ayyadurai filed a cert petition with the United States Supreme Court in his New Jersey ballot access case. Ayyadurai v New Jersey Democratic State Committee, number not yet assigned. Even though he had enough valid signatures, he was challenged off the ballot because he was born in India.
The cert petition points out that in four instances in the past, New Jersey had printed presidential or vice-presidential candidates’ names on the ballot, even though they did not meet the constitutional qualifications mentioned in Article Two. The petition covers some of the same issues that were argued in Trump v Anderson, on the difference between being allowed to run for office, versus hold the office. A copy of the cert petition will be posted here as soon as the U.S. Supreme Court assigns it a number and posts it.