NC Supreme Court: Remove RFK’s Name From Ballot

Raleigh’s ABC affiliate reports:

The North Carolina Supreme Court late on Monday upheld a lower-court ruling that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name must be taken off state ballots for the Nov. 5 presidential election.

The intermediate-level Court of Appeals had issued an order last week granting Kennedy’s request to halt the mailing of ballots that included his name. The State Board of Elections announced Friday that it would appeal that decision to the Supreme Court and asked the state’s highest court to expedite its ruling.

The court did just that Monday, saying it concluded that the NCBOE did not meet its “heavy burden” under the standard, and accordingly “we deny their petition for discretionary review.”

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Yesterday Kennedy lost this battle in Michigan.

North Carolina Supreme Court rules Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s. name must be removed from ballots https://t.co/GqI8Z0GHen

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