The Supreme Court docket of Wisconsin has agreed to rule on whether or not Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will keep on the poll after the impartial candidate-turned-Trump backed filed a Sept. 3 lawsuit looking for to have his identify eliminated.
Kennedy has been petitioning states throughout the nation to strike his identify from the checklist of 2024 presidential candidates after suspending his marketing campaign and endorsing the Republican ticket in August.
He efficiently had his identify withdrawn in North Carolina, whereas Michigan determined towards revoking Kennedy’s poll entry. Republicans worry Kennedy may pull votes away from Trump in states the place he stays on the poll.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court docket has promised to decide as “expeditiously as potential” and can doubtless not hear arguments. A county court docket dominated that candidates should stay on the poll until they die.
Attorneys for the Wisconsin Elections Fee stated clerks have already began sending absentee ballots with Kennedy’s identify, in response to the Related Press.
Kennedy misplaced a major quantity of his already marginal voting share when Vice President Harris changed President Biden because the Democratic nominee. Nonetheless, he was nonetheless seen as a possible spoiler given how shut the race between Trump and Harris is.
When he introduced that he was suspending his marketing campaign and becoming a member of forces with Trump, Kennedy cited free speech and the warfare in Ukraine as key causes for his resolution.
“One of many two candidates has adopted these points as his personal to the purpose the place he has requested to enlist me in his administration. I am talking, after all, of Donald Trump,” Kennedy advised his supporters.