SCOTUSblog selected CCD’s petition for certiorari in Libertarian Party of North Dakota v. Jaeger as its petition of the day. See the SCOTUSblog post.#libertarians #NorthDakota #certiorari #SCOTUSblog
How far are we from “a Soviet-style system where the competition is pruned such that the election merely ratifies the controlling party’s choice,” CCD director Theresa Amato asks in an op-ed for CNN. Ballot access restrictions preventing Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum from appearing on Virginia’s Republican primary election ballot are just the latest evidence of an “archaic electoral process that artificially restricts our ballot choices,” Amato writes.#oped
Philadelphia Weekly has this investigative piece on Pennsylvania’s unconstitutional practice of requiring candidates to pay litigation costs following challenges to their nomination petitions. The piece quotes an open letter consumer advocate and former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader wrote to Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald Castille, which states, “The Jim Crow era ended in large part because the United States Supreme Court struck down such financial burdens in a