The Supreme Court declined to put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the presidential ballot in New York.
It’s the high court’s latest action ahead of the 2024 election, after declining to let Green Party candidate Jill Stein on the Nevada ballot and partially siding with Republicans to enforce Arizona state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voting.
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After suspending his independent campaign and backing Republican nominee Donald Trump, Kennedy and his supporters fought for him to be on the reliably blue New York ballot as he fought to stay off the ballot in more contentious states where his presence could hurt Trump, recently succeeding in the latter effort in North Carolina.
The court rejected the Kennedy application on Friday afternoon with an unsigned, unexplained order that showed no justices dissenting from the move.
Kennedy was kept off the New York ballot for having used an invalid state address to get on it. His campaign committee and others argued to the justices that the address he used shouldn’t matter and that keeping him off the ballot would be unfair to people who want to vote for him despite his suspended campaign. New York officials urged the justices not to help Kennedy because they said it would be a disruptive change right before the election, and they noted that voters could still write-in Kennedy if they want to.
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