This is starting to get a bit nuts. To recap:
1) Way back when, New York’s Working Families Party gave its ballot line to Jon Powers for the NY-26 congressional race.
2) Powers lost the Democratic primary to Alice Kryzan, but due to election laws had to remain on the WFP line unless he died, was nominated for a judgeship, or moved out of state. He accepted employment in DC and moved there, thus theoretically freeing up his line.
3) However, the state GOP sued, and a trial court-level state judge agreed that Powers had to stay on the line.
4) Dems appealed, and New York’s intermediate appellate court reversed the first judge, saying that Powers’s name should be removed from the WFP line and that Kryzan’s could be added.
5) Republicans then sought to take the case to NY’s highest-level appellate court, the Court of Appeals, but Chief Judge Judith Kaye declined to hear the matter.
6) So in a desperate last-second move, the GOP sued in federal court, seeking a restraining order to prevent Kryzan from getting on the WFP line. The judge granted the order late last night.
Kyrzan’s people say they plan on appealing this decision to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. With the election just days away, hopefully this newest decision will also be overturned. Stay tuned.