A prominent election lawyer says the candidate violated what's known as the state's Sore Loser law.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought the Democratic nomination for president until October 2023, when he said he would continue his campaign as an independent. | Jose Luis Magana/APA prominent Democratic attorney is trying to prevent independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from appearing on New Jersey’s general election ballot this November.
Salmon led the charge to remove Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, from the state’s 2020 ballot over theLegal filings from Salmon point out how Kennedy ran for president seeking the Democratic nomination. Kennedy’s April 2023 statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission and his campaign kickoff said he was running as a Democrat.
“Defendant Kennedy sought the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States,” Salmon wrote in legal filings. “He was unsuccessful. Now, he seeks to run as an independent candidate. His conduct strikes as the heart of New Jersey’s Sore Loser Law, and as such, he must be barred from appearing on the ballot, and should only be permitted to wage a write-in campaign in the upcoming election.
On X, Salmon said that he is not being paid by any outside parties to bring forth the legal challenge and is doing it ““I feel confident in my lawsuit, barring a court deciding to re-write the plain language of the law,”Political observers think that Kennedy’s independent presidential bid could act as a spoiler, but it’sThe Kennedy campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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