Reed v. Kusper

This cause was remanded to this court from the United States Supreme Court (Norman v. Reed (1992), 502 U.S. 279, 116 L. Ed. 2d 711, 112 S. Ct. 698) to address the following issue of first impression: whether the failure of a new political party to include judicial candidates on its slate invalidates the entire slate under article 10 of the Election Code (the Code) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 46, par. 1 — 1 et seq.); and if it does, whether this “complete slate requirement” of the Code is unconstitutional.

On August 6, 1990, Barbara J. Norman and others (the Party) filed petitions to place their…