No. 24-6604

Siddhanth Sharma v. Alan Hirsch, Chairman of North Carolina State Board of Elections, in His Official Capacity, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-02-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: ballot-access candidate-qualifications election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment voter-privacy
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment FourthAmendment DueProcess Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-04-25
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a North Carolina law requiring felony disclosure for congressional candidates and displaying voter addresses violates constitutional rights and conflicts with precedent on candidate qualifications

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

To run for Congress, at least in North Carolina, one must be a Registered Voter. Upon being a Registered Voter, one ’s Residential Address gets displayed on a public database. Additionally, another requisite to run for Congress is that one must disclose if they are a felon refusal to even answer the question results in being denied form the ballot, and answering untruthfully gets one charged with a Class I Felony. The questions for the Court are: Li Is Petitioner ’s case moot simply because the 2024 midterms are over and he has expressed a desire to run for the 2026 midterms as the 4th Circuit noted? 2.) Whether NCOS 163-106(e) acts as an additional qualification, or is an unconstitutional regulation for U.S. House of Representatives candidates; and whether the Felony Disclosure violates the 1st and 14th Amendments. And whether the 4th Circuit ’s holding conflicts with U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995) and Cook u. Gralike, 531 U.S. 510 (2001): Anderson v. Martin, 375 U.S. 399, 402 (1964)?

Docket Entries

2025-04-28
Petition DENIED.
2025-04-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/25/2025.
2025-02-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 24, 2025)

Attorneys

Siddhanth Sharma
Siddhanth Sharma — Petitioner