Supreme Court Affirms Candidates’ Right To Challenge Election Rules

By: Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal candidates have standing to challenge rules governing their elections.

In Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, the high court affirmed that candidates running for public office “have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections, regardless [of] whether those rules harm their electoral prospects or increase the cost of their campaigns.”

“Their interest,” the court determined, “extends to the integrity of the election — and the democratic process by which they earn or lose the support of the people they seek to represent.”

The decision was 7-2, with Chief Justice John Roberts authoring the majority opinion. Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored a separate opinion concurring in the judgement, which Associate Justice Elena Kagan joined.

Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the court’s decision.

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