This week the Ninth Circuit court unanimously ruled in Nader v. Brewer that Arizona’s state residency requirement for petition circulators is unconstitutional. The courts decision immediately affects those states in the same circuit, Alaska, California, Montana, North Dakota, all who have similar restrictions.

The three-judge panel court struck down Arizona’s statutory requirement – which established that only Arizona state residents could circulate petitions – because it violated citizens right to political speech under the First and Fourteenth Amendment.

The case Nader v. Brewer was brought by independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader and Donald Daien, an Arizona supporter of his 2004 campaign.

This court decision in Nader is wonderful!

The government has no business regulating who can or can’t circulate petitions, it’s absurd.