Maine candidate turned down at Supreme Court
Boston Globe - Wed Aug 20, 7:12 pm EDTThe U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to intervene in independent U.S. Senate hopeful Herbert Hoffman's bid to get his name on Maine's ballot in November.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to intervene in independent U.S. Senate hopeful Herbert Hoffman's bid to get his name on Maine's ballot in November.
WASHINGTON and#8212; The Supreme Court has refused to intervene in independent U.S. Senate hopeful Herbert Hoffman's bid to get his name on Maine's ballot in November.
A man formerly from Maine who authorities said kept an arsenal of weaponry and military gear pleaded not guilty Wednesday to threatening to assassinate both President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to intervene in independent U.S. Senate hopeful Herbert Hoffman's bid to get his name on Maine's ballot in November...
OGUNQUIT and#8212; Independent U.S. Senate candidate Herbert Hoffman is fighting to replace his name on the November ballot, filing a motion for a stay of a Maine Supreme Judicial Court decision that ruled his candidacy invalid July 28.
Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter has asked the state of Maine and the state Democratic Party chairman to supply their views on the right of an independent candidate for U.S. Senate to have his name on the??November election ballot.?? In an order issued Friday (found here), Souter — in his role as Circuit Justice [...]
UPDATE 5:10 p.m.?????? Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, in a brief order Wednesday afternoon, turned down a request that would have given an independent candidate in Maine for the U.S. Senate a place on the Nov. 4 ballot for that office.?? Souter acted without referring the stay application to his colleagues.?? There was no [...]
Pay Up! Re "Independence 2.0" (Cover Story, Aug. 6): I agree with Lawrence Lessig that it's time to change the way we finance election campaigns. We only need to look at the successful systems of public campaign financing in Maine and Arizona to see that it is really possible.
UPDATE 6:05 p.m. State officials in Maine told a Supreme Court Justice Tuesday that the state’s interests in running elections do not require “a sweeping remedy” that would have the effect of keeping an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate off the Nov. 4 election ballot.???? Lawyers in the state attorney general’s office, representing the??Secretary of [...]
YORK, Maine and#8212; Local retailers of beer and wine said they were happy with a state decision that will bring the issue of a proposed beverage tax to the public for a vote.
When Sally Ehrenfried was in the fourth grade, she wrote a letter to presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. After Carter was elected, Ehrenfried received an invitation to his inauguration. Ehrenfried still has that invitation, a paper symbol of the start of her lifelong interest in public policy. The Maine native went on to earn a degree in political science from Bates College in her home state. ...