Posted on 01/04/2024 11:59:12 AM PST by Jacquerie
The legal challenge to the Florida Democratic Party’s (FDP) decision to list only President Joe Biden’s name on the party’s presidential primary ballot in March will go before a federal court next week.
Florida law says that the names of unopposed candidates shall not appear on the ballot. That means that as of now, there will not be a Democratic presidential primary election in March in Florida.
Judge Allen Winsor will hold a hearing on Jan. 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Division of Florida in Tallahassee on whether to issue a preliminary injunction to require Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd to place any or all of the other candidates running for the Democratic nomination for president on the March 19 Florida Democratic presidential preference primary ballot.
A lawsuit filed by Tampa attorney Michael Steinberg, a former chair of the Hillsborough County Democratic Party, accuses the FDP of violating his constitutional rights as a voter by placing only Biden’s name on the presidential primary ballot, excluding other Democratic candidates who are running.
Steinberg called the decision to exclude the name of Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips from the ballot to be “arbitrary and capricious,” and in violation of his due process and equal protection rights. He has since amended his lawsuit to include the names of two other Democrats running for president: New Age author Marianne Williamson and media personality Cenk Uygur.
The Florida Democratic Party has maintained that it followed its “standard process” in selecting who would appear on the presidential primary ballot. A spokesperson for the party told the Phoenix last month that when the State Executive Committee met in late October to vote on who would appear on the ballot, the only candidate to receive votes was Joe Biden.
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I thought that Biden had some Democratic opposition, though.
Democrats are trying to make it look like our side is trying to keep candidates off the ballot. We should do that to Biden. Just have some State flunkies say Biden took bribes and we all ‘feel’ that’s true - then pull up some YOUTUBE videos as proof and play totalitarian creep... like what democrats really are.
The democrat party in Florida is a joke...
watch what happens should Hillary decide to saddle up....
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