A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday told Russian asset Cornel West tough shit about being disqualified, even if he sympathized a bit, it’s simply too late to put West on the ballots that are already being cast early in the 2024 election in the state and there’s no undoing it, the AP reports.
“The laws, as applied to him and based on the record before the court, appear to be designed to restrict ballot access to him (and other non-major political candidates) for reasons that are not entirely weighty or tailored, and thus appear to run afoul of the US Constitution,” wrote district Judge Nicholas Ranjan as he expressed “deep concern” over the way the Secretary of State Al Schmidt’s office handled West’s petition. “If this case had been brought earlier, the result, at least on the present record, may have been different,” Ranjan continued. Too bad, Ivan.