In a South Shore Press exclusive, we obtained the lawsuit from a group of registered voters who filed suit in New York State Supreme Court in Dutchess County against RFK Jr., his Vice Presidential running mate, and the New York State Board of Elections in an attempt to kick him off the Presidential ballot in the Empire State.
(Click here to read the lawsuit, exhibits, and court documents in the South Shore Press)
The lawsuit obtained by the South Shore Press, and filed in Dutchess County on Monday, June 10th, 2024, claims RFK Jr. lied about living in New York State and truly lives with his wife in California.
The three plaintiffs suing RFK Jr., Caroline Cartwright, Matthew Nelson, Joseph Rhone, Jr., and Alexander Pease, are asking the court to invalidate his presidential petition to prevent his name from appearing on the New York State ballot this November.
“This case arises from a deliberate falsehood included on the Independent Nominating Petition circulated to place Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Presidential Ballot in the State of New York. The mandatory residence field of the petition included not the candidate's true residence in California, where he has lived with his wife for years, but the address of a family friend in Katonah, NewYork, where he has at most only visited,” wrote the plaintiffs in their lawsuit.
The lawsuit states Kennedy’s true address is Mandeville Canyon Road in Los Angeles, California with his wife, actress Cheryl Hines.
When submitting his designating petitions to appear on the New York presidential ballot, RFK Jr. listed his home address on Croton Lake Road, Katonah, New York.
If the courts won’t toss RFK Jr. off the ballot in New York for residency issues, it appears the plaintiffs are also pursuing a path that 102,497 signatures RFK’s campaign collected should be invalidated due to “rampant fraud.”
The lawsuit claims some signatures were forged, obtained through “deceit and treachery,” and some who signed were not registered to vote at the residence they listed.
It even challenges that Kennedy is also ineligible to receive California’s 54 Electoral votes in the event he won that state. RFK’s running mate, California-based attorney Nicole Shanahan, lives in the Golden State.
The 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Electors from casting ballots for a Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate who are from the same state.
“The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves,” begins the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.
The newly filed lawsuit trying to knock RFK off the New York State ballot hammers this point home.
“Respondent-Candidate Kennedy is not eligible to win any of California's Electoral College votes…the Twelfth Amendment make clear that Presidential and Vice-Presidential picks cannot be from the same State. If they are, then those individuals cannot win that State's Electoral College votes. And Kennedy and his Vice-Presidential pick, Respondent-Candidate Shanahan, fall squarely within the parameters of this limitation,” wrote the plaintiffs in their lawsuit.
Attorneys for both parties are scheduled to appear in court again for a pre-trial hearing before Judge Thomas R. Davis on Friday, June 14th, 2024, at 9:30 AM.
Attorneys for both sides are then scheduled to “show cause” concerning the merits of the claims in the same State Supreme Court room in Dutchess County, on Tuesday, June 18th, at 2:00 PM.