Chris McKenna | Westchester/Rockland Journal News | Aug. 12, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was barred from running for president in New York on Monday when a judge invalidated his candidate petition for wrongly claiming he lives in New York.
The decision followed a four-day trial last week about whether Kennedy truly lived at the Westchester County address on his petition and if lying about it should disqualify him. Kennedy, who moved to California in 2014 after living in Westchester for three decades, had listed his friends’ house in Katonah and insisted that was his true home during the case.
In a 34-page ruling, state Supreme Court Justice Christina Ryba found that Kennedy’s presence at his friends’ home was “virtually nonexistent” and that he used their address solely “for the purpose of maintaining his voter registration and furthering his own political aspirations in this State.” She called his residency claim “a sham” and ruled the petition void for that reason, barring him from the Nov. 5 election ballot.
