New Jersey lawsuit seeks to keep RFK. Jr. off ballot

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(The Center Square) — New Jersey’s ‘sore loser’ law blocks independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from appearing on the November ballot, according to a new lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court on Tuesday, argues that Kennedy is ineligible to run as an independent because doing so would violate a state law that bars individuals from running as non-party candidates in the same year they fail to win the nomination of a political party.

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