Democrats get a third-party hopeful knocked off Pennsylvania ballot, as Cornel West tries to get on
Source: AP
Updated 8:51 PM EDT, August 21, 2024
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania Democrats have won legal challenges keeping the left-wing Party for Socialism and Liberation off the battleground states 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 Pennsylvanias 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 partys presidential candidate, Claudia De la Cruz, off Pennsylvanias Nov. 5 ballot.
Seven of the partys 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 Partys primary on April 23.
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LeftInTX
(29,520 posts)Jill Stein was also protesting against the DNC today. (disguised as protesting for Gaza)
Now are they protesting for Gaza or are they simply protesting the DNC?
Oopsie Daisy
(4,288 posts)mdbl
(5,318 posts)Someone with money had to convince him to run as a losing candidate to screw the Democrats.
SunSeeker
(53,358 posts)I'm glad Claudia De La Cruz is off the PA ballot.