Forgetting about the dubious ethics and legality of using the courts and trickery like fake sites to stop opponents, the Democrats by spring had loudly advertised efforts to block ballot access not just for No Labels but for Kennedy, Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Cornel West, and Trump, i.e. every candidate they faced in an election in the last cycle. Was this smart? Theresa Amato, the former campaign manager for Ralph Nader and author of a book about an earlier generation of eerily similar schemes called Grand Illusion, doesn’t think so.
Yes, there were dirty tricks by the Democrats in the last election. They applied them to third parties, Democratic primaries and Trump. It is all coming out in a court case in the discovery.