Head-to-head
Rio Grande Foundation, Petitioner v. Maggie Toulouse Oliver, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of State of New Mexico vs. Daniel Richard, Petitioner v. Kelly Ayotte, Governor of New Hampshire, et al.
Elections cases on the Supreme Court docket, side by side.
The matchup
Relationship
- Shared issue
- Elections
- Why compared
- Reviewed Elections tags connect these current-term public cases.
Questions presented
- Rio Grande Foundation, Petitioner v. Maggie Toulouse Oliver, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of State of New Mexico
- 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly determined that New Mexico has an informational interest in requiring qualified donor disclosure for communications that necessarily have a political purpose? 2. Whether the court of appeals correctly determined that the donor disclosure requirements within New Mexico’s Campaign Reporting Act (“CRA”), N.M. Stat. Ann. §§ 1-19-25 to -36, survive exacting scrutiny? 3. Whether the court of appeals correctly applied exacting scrutiny to review the CRA?
- Daniel Richard, Petitioner v. Kelly Ayotte, Governor of New Hampshire, et al.
- 1. Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court denied meaningful judicial review under the Elections Clause and Qualifications Clauses of the U.S. Constitution, in violation of Moore v. Harper, 600 U.S. 1 (2023), by declaring N.H. Const, pt. II, art. 32 “silent” on the method of ballot counting expressly required by that provision and by disregarding its own binding precedent in Fischer v. Governor, 145 N.H. 28 (2000). 2. Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as interpreted in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), and Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), is violated when a state court dismisses as a non-justiciable “generalized grievance” a qualified voter’s claim that his in-person, hand-counted ballot—cast under strict constitutional verification standards, was commingled and tabulated with hundreds of thousands of absentee and machine-counted ballots processed under materially weaker verification and transparency standards.
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Sources
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