PITTSBURGH — Cornel West and Melina Abdullah, a third-party presidential ticket in 2024, may proceed with constitutional claims against Pennsylvania’s secretary of state over ballot access rules. The state argued the claims were moot because the 2024 election ended,

U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan partially denied the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt's motion to dismiss a First and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit filed on behalf of two third-party political candidates whose attempts to be placed on the 2024 presidential general-election ballot in Pennsylvania were rejected.