Texas Judge Decides Who Is On The Ballot
This entry was posted on 7/13/2006 11:45 AM and is filed under Amendment Suggestions.
I thought "we the people" got to decide who is on a ballot.
Apparently not the case this year for people voting in the 22nd congressional district in Texas. Congressman DeLay chose not to run for re-election after winning the Republican primary in March and resigned his seat in June. He moved to Virginia and claimed residency, but a federal judge in Texas said that Mr. DeLay's name must remain on the ballot in Texas because he was not convinced that Mr. DeLay might not return to Texas.
Republicans in Texas wanted to replace the former House majority leader on the ballot and say state election law allows them to select a new candidate because Mr. DeLay moved out of Texas. Democrats sued to block them.
What does this say about free and open elections in our country when a major political party sues for the right to have no person from the republican party on the ballot in competition for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives?
Where does TX 22nd congressional district Democrat party nominee Nick Lampson stand in this maneuver....for or against?
The state of our political discourse has hit a new low when a major political party actively seeks to deprive voters of an opportunity to choose and a federal judge agrees with it.
This is yet another example of why we need term-limits judicial reform within the federal court system, so that those appointed to the federal bench serve less time there.
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