After some Republicans warned of possible legal obstacles to Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination for president, Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, explained to Spectrum News NY1 that the Democratic presidential candidate change follows the law.
Jerry Goldfeder, an attorney who specializes in election and campaign finance law, is state Democratic Party delegate who will vote for Harris to be the nominee next month.
He said he’s confident the Chicago convention will go smoothly because every U.S. state has a law that whoever a political party nominates will get on the ballot.
“We’ve followed the rules, we’ve followed the law in the Democratic Party,” said Goldfeder, senior counsel for Cozen O’Connor and director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights & Democracy Project.
Some Republican leaders have said they would sue to block Democrats from having someone else on the ballot, citing campaign financing issues.
But Goldfeder says such legal challenges would not stand up in court because Democrats have not officially chosen a nominee, and Harris can access campaign funds because she was already on the ticket.
“Anybody who says otherwise is just making it up and just trying to bollocks up the works,” he said. “Frankly, it would be a frivolous lawsuit. If Republicans want to sue with regard to made up violations of campaign finance law, let them go ahead and do it.”