The Wisconsin Supreme Court gave the state’s Green Party and the Wisconsin Elections Commission until 5 p.m. Friday to respond to a petition brought by the state’s Democratic Party.
The petition, originally filed on Monday, seeks to remove Green Party candidate Jill Stein from this year’s presidential ballot.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission granted the Green Party ballot access in February after the party received over 1 percent of the vote in a 2022 statewide election, the legal requirement spelled out in a state statute.
The court released the responses of the Wisconsin Elections Commission and the Wisconsin Green Party on Friday evening.
White, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party, his party had no legal representation in Wisconsin when he was notified of the court order.
In her dissent to the court order, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote that, to her knowledge, “at no time in history has the court issued such orders before parties had made their appearances or retained lawyers.” Chief Justice Annette Ziegler joined Bradley’s dissent.
The last time that Green Party candidate Jill Stein appeared on Wisconsin presidential ballots was 2016.
https://www.wpr.org/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-green-party-28-hours-to-stay-on-ballot
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