Washington — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has requested the Supreme Court docket to reinstate his title on New York’s poll, regardless of ending his marketing campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump.
The unbiased presidential candidate was disqualified from New York’s poll in August after a choose decided that Kennedy’s connections to the New York tackle “existed solely on paper and had been maintained for the only function of sustaining his voter registration and political standing” within the state.
Decrease courts have rejected his makes an attempt to problem the choice.
In his emergency attraction to the Supreme Court docket, Kennedy argued that his supporters within the state “have a constitutional proper to have Kennedy positioned on the poll — and to vote for him, whether or not he’s campaigning for his or her vote or not.”
“The tackle on Kennedy’s petition was and is totally immaterial — each to voters and to New York,” his attorneys wrote, arguing that none of Kennedy’s supporters had been being misled by the tackle.
The Katonah, New York, tackle belongs to a good friend of Kennedy’s. The good friend testified that Kennedy paid her $500 a month for the room starting in Could. Each the good friend and Kennedy’s court docket submitting stated the presidential candidate has solely spent one night time on the house.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who’s dealing with the emergency attraction, requested a response from New York elections officers by Wednesday afternoon.
Kennedy suspended his marketing campaign in August and stated he would take away his title from the poll in 10 states, together with the seven battleground states, the place he thought his candidacy would hurt Trump’s possibilities of profitable the election. Kennedy stated his title would stay on the poll in non-battleground states and inspired voters there to nonetheless vote for him.
However since then, Kennedy has stated his supporters in all states ought to vote for Trump and requested his title be faraway from the poll in additional states than simply these which are carefully contested.
Kennedy’s title will not seem on the poll in practically 20 states, whereas he’ll be listed on the poll in additional than 30, in line with the newest tally from CBS Information.
Kennedy’s request is the newest election dispute to return earlier than the Supreme Court docket. The excessive court docket not too long ago rejected a bid to place Inexperienced Get together presidential candidate Jill Stein on Nevada’s poll.