The New Mexico Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this afternoon regarding the Republican Party\u2019s lawsuit against the secretary of state and attorney general.<\/p>\n
The hearing is a 4 p.m. today in The lawsuit alleges 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 At issue 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 Republicans filed the lawsuit on Sept. 27 and requested an emergency hearing because ballots were already being printed. District Judge Daniel Sanchez of Weh said either Gonzales or Johnson called Sanchez\u2019s office and asked when the judge would set a hearing. According to Weh, Sanchez\u2019s clerk said he would not schedule a hearing until January.<\/p>\n \u201cHe ignored the situation,\u201d Weh said. \u201c\u2026 That was a partisan act on his part.\u201d<\/p>\n The clerk\u2019s comment, however, allowed the plaintiffs to seek relief from a higher court, Weh said, leading to today\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n I was unable to reach Sanchez or his clerk for comment.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll update you on what happens at the hearing later today.<\/p>\n \n Update, 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Judge Sanchez called to deny allegations that he is putting politics above the law. He said his clerk set a hearing in the case for Thursday, the soonest date available, though he did not know when the scheduling had taken place.<\/p>\n \n \n The state\u2019s online court system does not indicate that a hearing has been scheduled in the case, but information on that site is often at least a day old.<\/p>\n \u201cShe set it up as soon as she could,\u201d Sanchez said, adding that there are \u201cno politics, no nothing,\u201d involved.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess that wasn\u2019t soon enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New Mexico Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this afternoon regarding the Republican Party\u2019s lawsuit against the secretary of state and attorney general. The hearing is a 4 p.m. today in Santa Fe. The lawsuit alleges that two Republican candidates were unfairly denied spots on the Nov. 7 general election ballot and that the […]<\/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-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}