By Richard Winger On December 9, the Sixth Circuit issued a three-page order in Libertarian Party of Ohio v Husted, 15-4270. The party had asked the Sixth Circuit for an injunction, putting it on the ballot for the 2016 election. The grounds (in the Sixth Circuit) are that the 2013 ballot access law violates the State Constitution.
The Sixth Circuit says it has no jurisdiction in this case now. The U.S. District Court still hasn’t ruled on another argument in the case, that Ohio applied its campaign finance laws in 2014 in a discriminatory fashion to block ballot access. The …read more