{"id":12519,"date":"2024-09-04T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2024-09-04T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:56:50","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-files-lawsuit-to-remove-his-name-from-wisconsin-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12519","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Files Lawsuit to Remove His Name From Wisconsin Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-files-lawsuit-to-remove-his-name-from-wisconsin-ballot\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 Former Independent party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Wisconsin Election Commission to remove his name from the state\u2019s ballot this November, part of his ongoing battle<\/a> to exit from races in swing states.<\/p>\n

The case argues that, absent a compelling reason, different treatment for third party candidates violates the Equal Protection Clause and Kennedy\u2019s First Amendment rights. It claims the different deadlines for ballot withdrawal for Democrat and Republican candidates versus third-party candidates\u2013September 3 for the former and August 6 for the latter\u2013are unlawfully discriminatory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThird parties can\u2019t be treated differently and they can\u2019t be discriminated against. Yet that\u2019s what happened here. The Republicans and the Democrats have until today at 5 p.m. to withdraw their nominees and replace them with someone else,\u201d the lawsuit argues. \u201cBut those rules don\u2019t apply to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr\u2026He has not been treated fairly or equally with the other presidential candidates who declared and ran for the presidency and have since wanted to withdraw.\u201d<\/p>\n

In its certification of presidential candidates last week, the WEC voted 5-1 to put Kennedy on the ballot, despite his withdrawal<\/a> and endorsement of Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump. Following the decision, county clerks were authorized to begin printing ballots.<\/p>\n

But Kennedy has argued his request is not unreasonable since Wisconsin election law already provides exceptions for candidate removal post-certification, including in the case of candidate death<\/a> or for personal and health reasons\u2013provided the Democrat or Republican candidate meets the September 3rd deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cKennedy has (like President Biden) decided that for associational and expressive reasons, he does not want to run for President anymore. The deadlines prevent him from withdrawing, even though the Democratic and Republican Parties (at least in theory) could provide a different nominee to the Commission today,\u201d the case says, arguing this proves \u201cThe Commission cannot claim any compelling state interest in forcing Independent candidates to file paperwork a month earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Due to these reasons, the lawsuit requests a stay on the WEC\u2019s ruling and for Dane County Circuit Court to issue an order barring the agency from placing Kennedy\u2019s name on the ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-files-lawsuit-to-remove-his-name-from-wisconsin-ballot\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Former Independent party presidential candidate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":12287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12521,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions\/12521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}