Rebecca McDowell Cook
Petitioner
James R. McAdams, Counsel of RecordOn November 5, 1996, Missouri voters approved a State constitutional amendment that required labels to be placed on election ballots next to the names of congressional candidates who did not fully support — or pledge to support — Federal term limits. Thirty-five days later, Donald J. Gralike, an undeclared Democratic candidate for Congress in 1998, filed suit against Missouri Secretary of State Rebecca McDowell Cook, alleging the amendment was unconstitutional. The district court granted a summary judgment supporting Gralike, and the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on August 31, 1999, that the amendment…
