A federal judge has ordered New York state’s Democratic primaries to be reinstated on June 23 after former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and others sued the state for canceling the …
A federal judge has ordered New York state’s Democratic primaries to be reinstated on June 23 after former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and others sued the state for canceling the election due to the coronavirus.
Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York said Tuesday that the decision by the New York State Board of Elections (BOE) to cancel the primary was unconstitutional.
The resolution that removed Yang and nine others — including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — “deprived them of associational rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution,” Torres wrote in her decision, ordering that the candidates’ names also be reinstated on the ballot.
The BOE had cited safety concerns as the reason to cancel the election, referring to an amendment signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on April 3 that authorized the state election board to “omit…from the ballot” any candidate who “announces that they are terminating or suspending their campaign.
