On Sept. 27, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign’s writ of injunction asking the court to order his name be placed on New York’s ballot as a candidate for president in the 2024 election.
Kennedy appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied his request for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the New York State Board of Elections from enforcing a New York Supreme Court order that invalidated his nomination petition.
The district court found that Kennedy failed to prove that the extraordinary relief from the court was warranted. According to the opinion, the presidential election requirement serves important regulatory interests, and even if Kennedy could establish a likelihood of prevailing on the merits, it concluded that the public interests of the state outweigh his.
The opinion noted that while a significant number of voters want to see Kennedy’s name on the ballot for the upcoming presidential election, “the interest of those voters does not outweigh the broader public interest in administrable elections.”