The Nevada Green Party (NGP) is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to keep its candidates on the state ballot for the Nov. 5 election.
The emergency application was filed on Sept. 13, after the Nevada Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling placing Green Party candidates on the ballot.
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled 5–2 on Sept. 6 that the party’s candidates could not appear on the ballot because they used the wrong form when gathering ballot-access signatures from the public. The ruling followed the Nevada State Democratic Party’s challenge of signatures that would have permitted Stein to appear on the ballot….