It\u2019s been two weeks since the Republican Party sued the secretary of state and attorney general, alleging that two Republican candidates were unfairly denied spots on the Nov. 7 general election ballot and that the Democrats illegally placed a candidate on the ballot.<\/p>\n
The party asked a district judge in \u201cJudge Sanchez should have set a hearing date by now,\u201d said Republican Party spokesman Jonah Cohen.<\/p>\n At the heart of the lawsuit is the allegation that the Democratic secretary of state and attorney general are treating members of their own party different than Republicans. I asked Cohen if he suspected the same from the judge.<\/p>\n \u201cAll five justices of the New Mexico Supreme Court are Democrats. Out of the 10 judges of the N.M. Court of Appeals, eight of them are Democrats. And all of the judges in the <\/p>\n First Judicial District \u2014 where we filed the case \u2014 are Democrats, totaling seven,\u201d he wrote in an e-mail. \u201cNaturally, Republicans are concerned politics may be playing a part. How can we not be? On Sept. 27, we asked for an emergency hearing, a perfectly reasonable request, and still we haven\u2019t received a date.\u201d<\/p>\n \n \u201cTo our mind, the court system is frequently corrupt due to its political lopsidedness,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOne party rule is a bad thing, whether it\u2019s Democrats or Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n At issue in the lawsuit is the secretary of state allowing Democrats to place Hector Balderas on the ballot for state auditor and denying Republican attempts to place Roger Gonzales of Mora on the ballot for Balderas\u2019 House seat and Barbara V. Johnson of The two joined the party in filing the suit against Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron and Attorney General Patricia Madrid. Since ballots were already being printed, they requested the emergency hearing.<\/p>\n Though it\u2019s not unusual to have to wait a couple of weeks or longer for a hearing to take place, in my experience judges in Las Cruces respond to requests for emergency hearings almost immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been two weeks since the Republican Party sued the secretary of state and attorney general, alleging that two Republican candidates were unfairly denied spots on the Nov. 7 general election ballot and that the Democrats illegally placed a candidate on the ballot. The party asked a district judge in Santa Fe for an emergency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}