Green Party Asks Supreme Court to Keep Its Candidates on Nevada Ballot

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....