U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear Hawaii Ballot Access Case

On April 4, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed that it had decided not to hear Nader v Nago, 10-728, the Hawaii ballot access case. Ralph Nader had filed this case in 2004, challenging Hawaii law that requires an independent presidential candidate to submit approximately six times as many signatures as are needed for a ballot-qualified political party with its own primary.

The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t accepted a ballot access appeal brought to it by a minor party or independent candidate since 1991, when it did hear the Illinois case brought by the Harold Washington Party. It is true that the Court did hear a challenge to Georgia’s law mandating that candidates for state office be tested for illegal drugs, in 1996, but that was about candidate qualifications to hold the office, not ballot access per se.

No independent presidential petition has succeeded in Hawaii since 1992.


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U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear Hawaii Ballot Access Case — 2 Comments

  1. Like a broken record —

    When will Nader (before he gets to be 120 plus years old) get some lawyers with SOME brain cells regarding —

    SEPARATE IS NOT EQUAL ??? Brown v. Bd of Ed 1954 — even in ballot access cases.

    Each election is NEW and has ZERO to do with ANY prior election stuff — except perhaps the number of actual voters in each election area in the prior election.

    P.R. and App.V. — akin to repealing slavery in the 13th Amdt.

    Remember April 1861 — the first shot by the Confeds = DOOM for slavery — akin to the first shot in April 1775 = DOOM for the Brit monarchy in the U.S.A.

    LOTS more hype coming 1861-1911 = 150 years — lots of BAD stuff continues — due to SCOTUS party hack robot MORONS.

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