A federal judge will hear arguments beginning at 9 a.m. next Tuesday on whether to enjoin the state from enforcing new legislation that the Libertarian Party of Arkansas says makes it difficult for members of third parties to get on the ballot in the state.
The party filed a lawsuit March 28 challenging Act 164 of 2019, which was signed into law by Gov. Asa Hutchinson in February. It increased the number of petition signatures required of "new political parties" from 10,000 to 3 percent of the votes cast in the most recent gubernatorial election.
That requires Libertarian Party candidates to obtain 26,746 signatures to get on the 2020 ballot.
The lawsuit also challenges provisions of several recently enacted laws that the party says are unconstitutional, and it asks U.S.
