Larramore v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a policy prohibiting state judiciary employees from becoming candidates for public office need only survive rational basis review in part because “the right to run for office is not a fundamental right”
• noting that the Illinois Supreme Court could act incrementally in restricting judicial employ- ees’ political activities, while exempting sitting judges from that restriction, “regardless of the probability that the gov- ernment will ever address the rest of the problem”
• subjecting a state supreme court policy prohibiting judicial branch employees from becoming candidates for public office to a rational basis review
• subjecting a state supreme court policy 13 prohibiting judicial branch employees from becoming candidates for public office to 14 a rational basis review
• “The [law at issue] serves [a substantial state] interest in that it enhances the efficiency of the workforce and prevents against actual, as well as the appearance of, impropriety.”
• “The [law at issue] serves [a substantial state] interest in that it enhances the efficiency of the workforce and pre‐ vents against actual, as well as the appearance of, impropri‐ ety.”

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