2024-08-22 at 7:20 AM UTC
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Democrats have won legal challenges keeping the left-wing Party for Socialism and Liberation off the battleground state’s presidential ballot, at least for now, while a lawyer with deep Republican Party ties is working to help independent candidate Cornel West get on it.
The court cases are among a raft of partisan legal maneuvering around third-party candidates seeking to get on Pennsylvania’s ballot, including a pending challenge by Democrats to the filing in Pennsylvania by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A Commonwealth Court judge agreed with two Democratic Party-aligned challenges on Tuesday, ruling that the paperwork filed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation was fatally flawed and ordering the party’s presidential candidate, Claudia De la Cruz, off Pennsylvania’s Nov. 5 ballot.
Seven of the party’s 19 presidential electors named in the paperwork were registered as Democrats and thus violated a political disaffiliation provision in the law, Judge Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter wrote. Six voted in the Democratic Party’s primary on April 23.
“They literally voted in the Democratic primary and then turned around to try to be electors for a third-party candidate,” said Adam Bonin, a Democratic Party-aligned lawyer who filed one of the challenges. “You can’t do that.”
The Party for Socialism and Liberation said it will appeal and, in a statement, accused Democrats and allies of “looking for any and every bureaucratic technicality conceivable that can be used to ban their opponents from competing.”
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-ballot-2024-west-kennedy-cc5507101bcd198028b04945d2d03aa3America has one ruling party, the Democrats, with the Republicans allowed to hang around as a boogeyman for fundraising, scapegoating and plausible deniability purposes. Whenever the Republicans accidentally win power, like in 2017, when they had all three branches of the government, they are lost. They don't want to enact any new laws or repeal any old ones, so all they do is give a big tax cut to the rich and play golf for a few months until the Democrats take control again and resume their radical racialist agenda.
And that's the game. That's American democracy. It really is that simple.
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2024-08-22 at 7:26 AM UTC
on the face of it it might make sense
but if you think about it a little longer - wtf should internal Democrat party politics have to do with the legal eligibility of a candidate to run? they're effectively saying that internal party politics override federal law.
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