New Jersey’s one-of-a-kind method of drawing primary ballots has prompted some apparent skepticism from a federal judge. The judge held a hearing Monday as he considers a lawsuit claiming the system favors preferred candidates of establishment party leaders and gives them a more prominent position on the primary ballot.
Antoinette Miles, state director of New Jersey Working Families, speaks at a rally outside U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., Monday, March 18, 2024. Miles and others at the demonstration oppose New Jersey’s method of awarding ballot preference to candidates backed by the county political party. The court was hearing a case brought by Rep. Andy Kim and others seeking to stop the practice. TRENTON, N.J.
Menendez hasn’t announced his plans, but many Democrats have abandoned him, calling for his resignation. He’s pleaded not guilty and vowed to fight the charges. U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi set aside Monday to decide whether to grant an emergency injunction to end the county line system. March 25 is the filing deadline for the primary, and he told defendants’ attorneys in court that he wouldn’t take too much time “so you can force the court to be able to say, ‘It’s too late, Judge’.”
He responded tersely to a defendant’s attorney who argued that the current system had been in place for 100 years. Kim, a three-term congressman, watched hours of testimony and cross-examination of an elections expert his attorneys brought as a witness before taking the stand himself.
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