Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 23, asking the justices to remove his name from the Wisconsin ballot for the Nov. 5 election.
Absentee voting is already underway in the important swing state. Wisconsin officials have already reportedly mailed out ballots and upwards of 97,000 people voted on the first day of in-person absentee balloting on Oct. 22.
In 2020, candidate Joe Biden, a Democrat, beat President Donald Trump in the state’s hotly contested popular vote by a margin of 49.5 percent to 48.8 percent, or 20,682 votes.
The new application in Kennedy v. Wisconsin Elections Commission was addressed to Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who oversees emergency litigation from Wisconsin….