Citizens in Charge, Inc. v. Jon Husted

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “[t]he distinction between ‘severe burdens’ and ‘lesser’ ones is often murky” (citing Buckley, 525 U.S. at 207 (Thomas, J., concurring))
• noting that “[t]he distinction between ‘severe burdens’ and ‘lesser’ ones is often murky” (quoting Buckley v. Am. Const. Law Found., 525 U.S. 182, 207 (1999) (Thomas, J., concurring))
• collecting Supreme Court cases, Sixth Circuit cases, and other federal appellate court cases where a public official who enforced a validly enacted law was shielded by qualified immunity
• declining to address whether there was a constitutional violation and instead ruling that the Ohio Secretary of State did not violate a clearly established right in enforcing a statute
• “The Supreme Court tells us that public officials should generally receive qualified immunity when enforcing properly enacted laws.”
• “The Supremacy Clause ‘invalidates state laws that interfere with, or are contrary to, federal law.’” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).