Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was successfully silenced by Democrat operatives throughout a vital court docket listening to in Pennsylvania—a state that’s a must-win for anybody eyeing the presidency.
The Democrats’ newest stunt? Stopping Kennedy from testifying on his personal behalf as they try and bar him from the poll, claiming that his candidacy paperwork features a bogus residence deal with.
The allegation, which reeks of desperation, is a part of a broader smear marketing campaign geared toward maintaining RFK Jr. out of the operating.
Kennedy’s lawyer expressed outrage over the decide’s determination to proceed with out permitting Kennedy to testify after his flight was canceled.
“That is the primary that I’m listening to about this,” Commonwealth Court docket Choose Lori Dumas stated, exhibiting little concern for the unexpected journey points that led to Kennedy’s late arrival.
The listening to was scheduled to be in Philadelphia, however the last-minute change to Harrisburg severely restricted Kennedy’s journey choices—a reality the decide appeared all too desperate to ignore.
“He was late by means of no fault of his personal,” stated RFK Jr.’s legal professional, Paul Rossi. “We don’t management the airways, and when the airline cancels the flight into Harrisburg, as you recognize, flights into Harrisburg are far and few between, in contrast to Philadelphia, the place this, the place this listening to was initially to be scheduled.”
He continued, “Due to the switch to Harrisburg, we had only a few flight choices. His flight was canceled, and for that purpose, and that purpose alone, the decide determined he can’t testify. In order that’s form of the top of it. I’ve by no means been in a state of affairs the place a canceled flight has resulted in a decide stopping any witness from testifying, provided that we’ve the whole day put aside, very simply may have had an adjournment to permit Mr. Kennedy to get right here, and we may have offered our case in full. We weren’t allowed to do this.”
Kennedy didn’t mince phrases exterior the courthouse, accusing the Democratic Social gathering of sinking to new lows of their bid to take care of energy.
“This Democratic Social gathering is doing every thing in its energy to guarantee that People are disenfranchised,” stated RFK Jr.
“There are 1,000,000 folks—million American voters—who’ve signed petitions to get me on the ballots, and there are tens of tens of millions who wish to vote for me. And the Democratic Social gathering, for my part, should be successful elections by competing on the battlefield of the marketing campaign: debating, giving interviews, doing all of the issues that candidates in democracies are presupposed to do.”
“To me, it’s a tragic devolution of this occasion that the one approach it could win elections is to maintain its opponents off the debating stage, off the ballots, and, um, use lawfare to attempt to win elections fairly than campaigning.”
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Kennedy, in the meantime, is combating challenges in a number of different states, together with Georgia, and is interesting a decide’s determination in New York final week that rejected Kennedy’s nominating petitions as a result of his listed residence was a “sham” deal with.
Kennedy lists his deal with as New York, however the decide dominated in favor of the challengers, who argued Kennedy’s precise residence was the house in Los Angeles he shares along with his spouse, the actor Cheryl Hines.
Testimony from the New York case was entered into proof within the Pennsylvania case.
Rossi stated Kennedy used the New York deal with partly to keep away from violating the Structure’s twelfth Modification, which prohibits a president and vp from residing in the identical state. Kennedy’s operating mate, Nicole Shanahan, additionally lives in California. New York is the place he’s registered to vote and he ultimately intends to return there to reside, Rossi stated.
Kennedy’s marketing campaign in any other case says it has collected sufficient signatures for poll entry in all 50 states and that it’s formally on the poll in 22 states, together with the battlegrounds of Michigan and North Carolina.
