On August 30, a U.S. District Court Judge listened to testimony in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted. Michael Johnston of the Ohio Libertarian Party, testified for the plaintiffs, and a representative of the Secretary of State provided testimony on the other side. The judge indicated he expects to issue a ruling by Friday, September 2. The issue is whether the new Ohio ballot access law is constitutional, and also whether due process prevents the Secretary of State from eliminating the four ballot-qualified minor parties on such short notice. The 2011 session of the legislature had passed a new law to replace the law held unconstitutional in 2006, but the new law still requires as many signatures as the old law, and sets an early February petition deadline for petitions to qualify a party.
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Edited By Richard Winger
What are the alleged disputed facts (if any) — requiring any very expensive hearing ???
For advanced folks — the moron courts have been screwing up *due process of law* stuff since the 1850s.
— i.e. added to the State and Fed constitutions out of abundant caution — even with separation of powers.
i.e. – deprivation [taking away] of life, liberty or property by executive / judicial officers according to LAW — and not the arbitrary stuff of LAWLESS tyrants.
OTHER constitutional procedural / substantive restrictions on any such deprivations.
Way too difficult for SCOTUS appointed party hack robot MORONS to understand.
See the book – Sources of Our Liberties, edited by Richard L. Perry (1959 – ABA) — before the serious SCOTUS insanity in the 1960s and since.
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