A county’s decision to enforce a local law and remove an elections commissioner because her job conflicted with her own race for town justice did not violate the First Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held Monday.
The Second Circuit found that the free speech rights of Susan Castine to run for public office as a candidate for Beekmantown Town Justice must give way to Clinton County’s interest in running a Board of Elections free of conflict of interest.
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