No Labels Says By the End of 2023, It Will Have Ballot Access or Be Working for Ballot Access in 27 States

Posted on by December 20, 2023
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No Labels held a press conference on December 18, 2023, and stated that it will be working toward or will have achieved ballot access in 27 states by the end of 2023.

No Labels also stated that 16 states will be held in abeyance for petitioning until a presidential candidate or presidential ticket is named due to lower petitioning requirements for candidate petitions, instead of party petitions, in those states.

The organization expects to have a presidential ticket on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, although I presume that if the US Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to assume the office of President of the United States, No Labels will stand down in its efforts to field a Presidential ticket.

Here is a story on the No Labels press conference.

 

Past U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Explain that Keeping Voters from Voting for the Candidate of their Choice is a Harm to Voters

Posted on by December 20, 2023
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In Reynolds v Sims, 377 U.S. 533, at page 535, the U.S. Supreme Court said, “The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government.”

In Wesberry v Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, at page 17, the Court said, “No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who makes the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.”

Justice Douglas wrote in Williams v Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23, at page 39, “A state has precious little leeway in making it difficult or impossible for citizens to vote for whomever they please.”

The persons who wrote the 14th amendment, section three, never imagined that the section could dictate whom voters could or could not vote for. The restriction in Section 3 concerns who can hold an office, not whether anyone can be prevented from voting for any candidate he or she wishes.

U.S. District Court Grants a Temporary Restraining Order in No Labels Trademark Lawsuit

Posted on by December 20, 2023
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On December 15, U.S. District Court Judge Gregory B. Williams issued a Temporary Restraing Order against the website NoLabels.com. That website is run by people hostile to No Labels. No Labels’ website is NoLabels.org. No Labels had once had control of the domain NoLabels.com but had abandoned it. Then, persons who oppose No Labels had purchased it and had put up a website that tried to denigrate No Labels.

The case is No Labels v NoLabels.com, U.S. District for Delaware, 1:23cv-01384. Thanks to Richard Grayson for this news. No Labels must post $250,000 bond and the case will continue, but in the meantime, NoLabels.com is no longer on the internet.