Supreme Court Rejects Jill Stein’s Bid to Appear on Nevada Ballot

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid from presidential candidate Jill Stein to appear on ballots in Nevada.
On Friday, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Nevada’s Green Party, which sought to place Stein, a Green Party candidate, on presidential ballots in the battleground state. The court’s order on Friday, issued without any noted dissents, allows Nevada to proceed with ballot preparation and printing that excludes Stein and other Green Party candidates from the ticket.
The decision marks a win for Democrats, who contested the Green Party’s place on the ballot in a state known for razor-thin statewide elections. In 2020, President Joe Biden edged out former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in Nevada.
The Democratic Party in Nevada filed a lawsuit to keep Stein’s name off the ballot after the Green Party gathered enough signatures for her inclusion. Although a lower court initially ruled in her favor, the state Supreme Court later found that the petition forms contained errors.
Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally and member of the former president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial, represented the Green Party in the case before the Supreme Court.
The Green Party in Nevada previously argued that its candidates were “wrongfully ripped from the ballot” and called for the Supreme Court to intervene. However, The Hill reported that the state argued against this, saying that “an order from this Court obligating Nevada to add NGP candidates to the ballot now would create an insurmountable problem: it would undermine the integrity of Nevada’s election.”
In court filings, Sekulow said, “Respondents’ solution to the September 6 clock expiring is the Applicant is out of air and should have just given up…NGP’s [Nevada Green Party] solution is to seek justice and vindication of its rights. While an admittedly extraordinary application to this Court, grave and irreparable constitutional violations are at stake.”
Newsweek previously reported that Stein will be on the ballot in Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and West Virginia, according to Ballotpedia’s most-recent update.
She will also be on the ballot in Montana, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Maine, Maryland and Missouri, Stein’s campaign manager Jason Call told Newsweek.
Meanwhile, the Green Party is on the ballot in Mississippi, South Carolina and Hawaii. The reason for why Stein is on the ballot in some states and the Green Party is on in others is because of ballot access procedures.
“In states where the Green Party did not have automatic ballot access we had to do petitioning. In some cases we could petition as a Green Party candidate and in some we had to petition as an independent,” Call said.
This article includes reporting from The Associated Press.
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