Federal judge rules New York must hold June primary canceled over coronavirus risks

[PoliticAverse]

A federal judge ordered Tuesday that New York state hold its canceled Democratic primary in June, which places Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other former 2020 candidates back on the ballot.

U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres of Manhattan ruled in favor of the legal team representing businessman Andrew Yang, who dropped out of the Democratic race in early February.

Yang's lawyers sued the State Board of Elections late last month after it canceled the state's primary, which had already been postponed for two months. Citing coronavirus concerns, the board stripped Sanders' name from the June 23 presidential primary ballot after he dropped out — effectively canceling the primary and making former Vice President Joe Biden the winner.

"The Court concludes that Plaintiffs and Plaintiff-Intervenors have shown a clear and substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the Democratic Commissioners' April 27 Resolution removing Yang, Sanders, and eight other Democratic presidential candidates from the ballot deprived them of associational rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution," Torres wrote in the conclusion of her 30-page ruling.

Read the rest at: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/federal-judge-rules-new-york-must-hold-june-primary-election-n1200876

[brush]

1. Yang reveals himself to be an asshole.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Hopefully no one will even go

[PoliticAverse]

4. In many parts of New York there are other races on the ballot as well...

also everyone has the option to vote by mail.

[whistler162]

7. In our area we are electing a replacement

state senator, the last one won a judgeship.

Hope, my absentee ballot arrives on time.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Thanks for posting!

Important news for us New Yorkers!

[Gothmog]

5. There will be an appeal

Link to tweet

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[PoliticAverse]

6. As they didn't cancel the other (non-presidential primary) elections the argument

that there is a vital public safety issue requiring the election to be cancelled is undermined.