Subject: First Amendment and Statutory Challenge – Marion County, Indiana

• The Sign Issue: Facing criminal disclaimer threats for a sign reading "Robbin Stewart for township board vote tuesday." This matches Stewart v. Taylor (1997) under a new statute number.
• The Fine Issue: Thousands in campaign finance fines over a $6 sign. Violates Buckley v. Valeo (de minimis thresholds) and Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (burden disproportionality). It constitutes an unconstitutional "first-dollar" penalty violating the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause via Timbs v. Indiana.
• The Press Issue: Brianna Delaney (Marion County Election Board) denied a press pass, using arrest threats to stop documentation.
• The Voting Issue: Denied a required provisional ballot as the GOP Marion County Clerk candidate testing procedures.
• The Claims: Combined 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Monell municipal liability, and Indiana Article 1, Section 23 violations (bypassing Collins v. Day via Majors judicial gloss).

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Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 416 F.3d 738 (8th Cir. 2005) (on rehearing en banc) — while addressing different First Amendment claims, the court’s discussion of associational protections recognized the NAACP/Bates strict lineage and cited Buckley’s requirement of close fit when disclosure/identification burdens arise. Justia

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. FEC, 566 F.3d 219 (D.C. Cir. 2009) (Buckley panel) — applied Buckley’s “substantial relation” inquiry while also recognizing NAACP’s associational privacy concerns; the panel emphasized evidentiary showing linking disclosure to the government interest. Justia

National Socialist Party v. Village of Skokie, 432 F.2d 714 (7th Cir. 1970) (en banc) — invoked associational and anonymity protections and required strong justification for content‑ or speaker‑targeted restraints; cited NAACP as foundational. Justia

 today i sent two postcards.

lost a chess game to a nice smart girl. 

photocopied some letters about beech grove. 

did not get them mailed or signed.

researched 17 and 19 of yeah thats whjjat the postcards were.

pi stuff. research the target. 

i got some addresses but just the outward shell, no i learned its an out of town investor from benton harbor.  

there was maybe a fresh murder there very recently, girl killed. guy shot. she was 19. unverified story so far.

 

 

Notice of Supplemental Authority

To the Clerk of the Court and the Honorable Justices of the Supreme Court of Colorado:

Pursuant to local appellate rules, Plaintiff-Appellant submits this notice of supplemental authority regarding two recent, controlling decisions issued by the Supreme Court of the United States: Chiles v. Salazar, No. 24-539 (U.S. Mar. 31, 2026) and First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport, No. 24-498 (U.S. Apr. 21, 2026). In these landmark rulings, Justice Neil Gorsuch—a Coloradan—writes for the Court and explicitly confirms that strict scrutiny applies to these cases.

The state cannot force an independent speaker to alter their content or strip themselves of anonymity as a precondition for engaging in core expression, under a clean line of local, binding authorities: Grant v. Meyer, 486 U.S. 414 (1988); Buckley v. ACLF, 525 U.S. 182 (1999); Tattered Cover, Inc. v. City of Thornton, 44 P.3d 1044 (Colo. 2002); Masterpiece Cakeshop, 584 U.S. 617 (2018); and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, 600 U.S. 570 (2023).

This restriction on state overreach is grounded in an unvarnished line of pure, controlling Supreme Court compelled-speech authority: Talley v. California, 362 U.S. 60 (1960); Miami Herald v. Tornillo, 418 U.S. 241 (1974); Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977); Riley v. NFB of North Carolina, 487 U.S. 781 (1988); McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995); NIFLA v. Becerra, 585 U.S. 355 (2018); and Janus v. AFSCME, 585 U.S. 878 (2018). This is a disclaimer case, not a disclosure case. The state’s reliance on campaign finance exceptions—such as Buckley v. Valeo (1976), McConnell (2003), Citizens United (2010), and AFPF v. Bonta (2021)—presents a series of doctrinal red herrings concerning backend regulatory reporting that are entirely inapplicable to the forced, on-communication dilution of an independent citizen's pure political speech.

Finally, a review of national jurisprudence reveals that 15 other states have reached definitive constitutional decisions on this exact point of law. In a decisive 13-2 split, the overwhelming weight of state constitutional authority rejects overbroad government attempts to compel disclosures or strip citizens of their political anonymity.

Respectfully submitted,

[Your Name / Counsel of Record]

cc: Timothy Sandefur, Esq. (Goldwater Institute)

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