Michael Hill (AP) reports that the bench trial “in Albany over whether Kennedy’s New York nominating petitions should be invalidated ended Thursday without Justice Christina Ryba issuing an immediate decision. Any ruling by the trial judge is expected to be appealed.”

Just hard to understand why a candidate would obfuscate about his residency. That said, New York’s ballot access laws for third-parties were made more cumbersome after Governor Andrew Cuomo changed the rules during COVID. Maintaining a ballot line now requires getting 2% of the vote every two years in whichever race is at the top of the ticket. That math has worked out to roughly three times the number of votes as before. Cuomo also increased how many signatures a party candidate needed from 15,000 to 45,000.