The Nevada Green Party’s application for an emergency order to include its candidate, Jill Stein, on the presidential ballot in the critical battleground state has now reportedly been denied by the Supreme Court.
The justices declined to overturn a ruling from Nevada’s high court earlier this month that prohibited Green Party candidates from participating, without any noted dissents.
Third-party ballot access has been a significant factor in this year’s presidential election, as evidenced by the legal challenges faced by the Green Party in its attempt to be presented to voters and erstwhile independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to have his name removed from battleground states.
The Nevada Green Party (NGP) claimed that its candidates were “wrongfully removed from the ballot” and requested a rare, emergency intervention from the Supreme Court to nullify the lower ruling.
Democratic state officials advised against this action, citing the potential for voter confusion, as ballots have already begun to be sent via mail.
The state has noted that a federal deadline for mailing ballots to overseas electors is approaching later this week.
Jay Sekulow, who represented former President Trump in his initial impeachment trial, served as the Green Party’s primary attorney before the Supreme Court.
The Nevada State Democratic Party initiated the litigation, citing that the Green Party employed an incorrect ballot petition form that has less stringent signature verification requirements.
The Green Party’s defense that a state employee instructed it to use the incorrect version was rejected by Nevada’s high court, which ruled 5-2 that its candidates were ineligible to appear on the ballot.
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