“So did New Jersey when Bob Torricelli was indicted. They still put old Frank Lautenburg on the ballot, and the NJ SC said it was okay, because you can’t just have an empty democratic party contender.”
That’s a NJ state senatorial election. Each state has their own deadlines, so I don’t quite see how we’re having the same conversation?
Perhaps this will help, see the column titled “Filing Deadline.”
https://ballotpedia.org/Deadline_to_run_for_president,_2024
No, that was the US Senate election, not the NJ state senate. It effected the whole country.
Jim Jeffords of Vermont gave us Tom Dashole as Senate Leader, and we would have got it back in 2004 if it wasn’t for the illegal Toricelli~Lautenberg switch. It had profound ramifications. We could even have avoided Obama.