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posted by n1 on Monday August 08 2016, @03:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the representation-is-a-privilege dept.

Ballot Access News reports:

On August 5, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer, a Bush Jr. appointee, ruled against Gary Johnson and Jill Stein in their debates lawsuit. The case had been filed on September 28, 2015, and is Johnson v Commission on Presidential Debates, U.S. District Court, D.C., 1:15cv-1580.

[...] The 27-page decision[Redirects to a PDF] [...] says, "Because Plaintiffs have no standing and because antitrust laws govern commercial markets and not political activity, those claims fail as a matter of well-established law."

[...] Footnote three, based on the judge's own research (or the research of her clerks), has factual errors. The judge relied on election returns published by the FEC, but the FEC returns do not say which candidates were [...] in states with a majority of electoral college votes, and the opinion's list of candidates is erroneous.

[...] Another factual error in the decision is on page 21. The decision says Ralph Forbes, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate, lost a case over debates in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1998. Actually Forbes was a candidate for U.S. House.

In the comments, Richard Winger notes a similar case.

the lawsuit Level the Playing Field v FEC is still pending, before another judge, in the same court

The presidential debates were previously moderated by the League of Women Voters (1976, 1980, 1984). The Democrats and Republicans screwed things up in 1988. The Commission on Presidential Debates, a corporation controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties, has run each of the presidential debates held since 1988.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @03:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 08 2016, @03:35AM (#385155)

    Yes. Because they have so much to gain from blocking a free market man and a literal Jew female from entering the race.

    Good goy.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by fnj on Monday August 08 2016, @07:30AM

    by fnj (1654) on Monday August 08 2016, @07:30AM (#385216)

    The "Oh noze, it's the jooz" chorus is a symptom. The yoke on the people is real; the privileged puppet masters are real. It's just sad that the reaction is so taken over by scapegoating a convenient target in what should be a laughably off-target xenophobia. Unfortunately, it's not laughable at all. Hitler's ghost is whooping it up because so many are lapping up what he was selling. And it detracts from the all-too-real horror wrought by the elite, privileged globalists, who come in all flavors and all colors. The enemy is not a religion or heritage. It is a cynical cabal of people whose common characteristics are a lust for power, wealth, and control.

    Say what it is that makes them evil, not some spurious shortcut label of how you want to paint them. Say "globalist scum", not "jooz", which is just plain inaccurate.