The Working Families Party will not have its own nominee for U.S. House in New York’s Tenth District. See this story.
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For the first time in at least a century, a public official has been removed from office for violating the Fourteenth Amendment’s “insurrection” clause. On September 6, a New Mexico state trial court removed Couy Griffin from his County Commissioner post in Otero County. State of New Mexico v Griffin, Santa Fe District Court, First District, D-101-cv-2022-473. Here is the opinion, which is quite detailed in describing Griffin’s actions during the first week in January 2021. He participated in the breach of the Capitol.
Griffin had already filed a federal lawsuit to suspend the state court proceedings, but the federal court had said the federal case is not ripe until and unless Griffin were removed by a state court. Presumably Griffin will now re-activate his federal lawsuit, which is Griffin v White, 2:22cv-362.
Griffin is a Republican. He is not running for re-election. He was first elected in 2018, to a four-year term. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.
Political scientist Jonathan Bernstein writes here about election systems in which parties don’t have nominees for important office such as Congress. As is traditional for political scientists, he supports the concept of political parties and thereby criticizes the Alaska election system. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
Todd Carney, an attorney who writes for Real Clear Politics, has this article about California’s top-two system. Thanks to Fairvote for the link.
The article has a factual error near the end, when it discusses the Alaska top-four system. It says there are no minor party or independent candidates for Alaska statewide office general elections this year. Actually, the U.S. House race has a Libertarian running in November.
On September 6, North Dakota Democratic nominee for U.S. House Mark Haugen will withdraw from the November 2022 election, and independent candidate Cara Mund, running for the same office, will file her independent candidate petition. See this story.