Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
7-13-2007
Abstract
The law professors named below teach and write about elections, voting rights, political parties, and electoral competition. Both basic and advanced law courses on voting and elections, as well as a wide range of scholarship on these subjects, regularly considers state authority to regulate conduct by political parties, candidates for office, and individual voters. Amici are among the many scholars who write and teach about the issues before the Court in this case.
Based on this expertise, and on careful review of this Court's decisions, amici argue in this brief that the nominating process the State of New York employs to select nominees for state supreme court justice violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Amici join this brief solely on their own behalf and not as representatives of their universities.
Recommended Citation
Katz, Ellen D., "New York Board of Elections v. Torres: Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Erwin Chemerinsky, Kareem Crayton, Steven P. Croley, Heather K. Gerken, Michael Kang, Ellen D. Katz, Ethan J. Leib, Michael Pitts, and Daniel P. Tokaji in Support of Respondents" (2007). Appellate Briefs. 101.
https://repository.law.umich.edu/briefs/101
Included in
Election Law Commons, First Amendment Commons, Fourteenth Amendment Commons, Judges Commons
Comments
Amicus: Charles, Professor Guy-Uriel E.; Chemerinsky, Professor Erwin; Crayton, Professor Kareem; Croley, Professor Steven P.; Gerken, Professor Heather K.; Kang, Professor Michael; Katz, Professor Ellen D.; Leib, Professor Ethan J.; Pitts, Professor Michael; Tokaji, Professor Daniel P.