The Socialist Equality Party lawsuit against Ohio’s March 1 independent petition deadline will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Law Professor Mark Brown of Capital University has agreed to write the cert petition.
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On February 2, U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones will hear the ballot access case filed by the Green and Constitution Parties (Rogers v Cortes, no. 06-0066, middle district). Due to a random circumstance, the Pennsylvania statewide petition requirement this year is 66,827 signatures. Yet in every other even-year election in the last twenty years, the Pennsylvania requirement has been between 20,000 and 30,000.
Dmitri Evseev has had an article published in the Boston University Law Review, on the mediocre job the US Supreme Court has done in cases involving minor political parties. The article is in the Dec. 2005 issue and can be read on-line at www.bu.edu/law/lawreview.
Dmitri Evseev has had an article published in the Boston University Law Review, on the mediocre job the US Supreme Court has done in cases involving minor political parties. The article is in the Dec. 2005 issue and can be read on-line at www.bu.edu/law/lawreview.
On January 10, the 6th circuit dismissed Ralph Nader’s Michigan ballot access case for procedure reasons. Nader v Land, 04-2428. In 2004, the Reform Party was on the ballot in Michigan. Even though the national convention of the Reform Party nominated Nader for president, one of the two factions of the Reform Party in Michigan told the Secretary of State that the state party desired to have no presidential nominee. Therefore, the Secretary of State didn’t list any Reform Party nominee in 2004, even though another faction of the state party wanted to list Nader.
Nader got on the ballot anyway in Michigan, as an independent. The 6th circuit said that since he got on the ballot anyway, he doesn’t have standing to complain about how the Secretary of State handled the Reform Party internal division.