Posted on 08/23/2024 8:25:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Wisconsin Supreme Court gave the state’s Green Party and the Wisconsin Elections Commission until 5 p.m. Friday to respond to a petition brought by the state’s Democratic Party.
The petition, originally filed on Monday, seeks to remove Green Party candidate Jill Stein from this year’s presidential ballot. Friday’s deadline takes the petition one step closer to the possibility of a decision from the state’s high court.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission granted the Green Party ballot access in February after the party received over 1 percent of the vote in a 2022 statewide election, the legal requirement spelled out in a state statute.
Democrats argue another state statute prevents Stein from legally appearing on the ballot because the Greens have no state officeholders or legislative candidates authorized to nominate presidential electors.
They want the court to reverse the Elections Commission’s decision before it meets to certify candidates next Tuesday.
In her dissent to the court order, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote that, to her knowledge, “at no time in history has the court issued such orders before parties had made their appearances or retained lawyers.” Chief Justice Annette Ziegler joined Bradley’s dissent.
According to Michael J. White, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party, his party had no legal representation in Wisconsin when he was notified of the court order.
“That just strikes me as a little bit unreasonable,” he told WPR on Thursday afternoon.
Pete Karas, the state Green Party’s elections chair, said they found a lawyer “around midnight” after “a zillion phone calls.” That lawyer is Milwaukee-area attorney Michael Dean.
The next morning, the party sent out a mass email to its followers asking for donations.
“Lawyers are expensive, and we need your help today to ensure we can pay for these much-needed legal fees,”
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Uniparty fascist democrats just being true to form
I just may donate to the WI Green Party, to help keep them on the Wisconsin ballot.
Republicans should send in the money.
How come Supreme Courts don’t ever give the ATF or the FBI only 28 hours to respond to a lawsuit?
Because Democracy is too important to let voters have choices.
I detest Jill Stein and all that she stands for.
But I have even more contempt for the undemocratic tactics of the “Democratic” party!
I have signed petitions for the Conservative Party and the Green Party, in my state.
I believe these groups have a right to spread their ideals. May the best win.
Let me tell you, folks, some of the nasty tricks the Democrats are using to put Kamala in the Oval Office.
In Wisconsin....
And what they put RFK Jr. through is simply incredible....
Do you want people that cheated RFK Jr. out of the Democratic nomination to be given the federal governmental power to cheat you out of your own money or of an inheritance?
Wow – – just emphasizes what RFK Jr was saying today!
Sorry – – I just posted before reading your post. I said what you already covered!
More Democratic shenanigans
If the Greens are forced off the ballot they should endorse Trump
If the Greens are forced off the ballot they should endorse Trump
It's time to recognize that the Democrats are communists now.
Are the Uniparty fascist dems going to sue RFK, Jr. to keep him ON the ballot in swing states like Pennsylvania?
One might think the dems are worried they didn't manufacture enough votes? This looks like a desperate attempt to steal Green party votes to make up the deficit.
If the dems succeed in throwing Stein off the ballot, she might (should) endorse Trump, too.
It's the only way to save our democracy.
“It’s time to recognize that the Democrats are communists now.”
So are the Greens in a lot of ways, but it is the Sh*tocrats that are keeping them off the ballot. The Greens need to take a stand for freedom of speech and fair elections. Neither the Sh*tocrats nor Trump are probably going to give them anything they want, but Trump isn’t trying to silence them.
Hoping Trump has the presence of mind to reach out to her. Surely they can agree on even one thing and she can get on stage with him in Wisconsin and do exactly what Rfkjr just did.
I may have to steal that.
Democrats cannot allow a little thing like democracy to get in the way of saving democracy.
Democrats really aren’t for democracy, apparently.
Maybe the Greens should file a lawsuit demanding a name change for the democrats...
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