Former Gov. Gary Johnson Announces Entry Into 2016 Presidential Race

[TuHolmes]

Could you give a little more detail about that?

Less government intervention. Repealing drug laws. Less nanny state stuff.

There are other things as well, but there's a lot to like about the Libertarian platform.

[Las Vegas]

Less government intervention. Repealing drug laws. Less nanny state stuff.

There are other things as well, but there's a lot to like about the Libertarian platform.

Well he'd better stir up a good story and stick to it, because he's falling in the polls.  I hadn't realized that until today.

[Dos Equis]

Poll: Gary Johnson Could Win New Mexico
By Bill Hoffmann   |   Monday, 03 Oct 2016

Gary Johnson is riding high in New Mexico, according to a new poll — so much so that he could even best Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election, a top numbers-cruncher says.

In a poll released Sunday by The Albuquerque Journal, the former New Mexico governor and Libertarian presidential candidate received 24 percent to Clinton's 35 percent, Trump's 31 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein's 2 percent.

Nate Silver of the election-polling blog FiveThirtyEight says the poll shows it is "plausible" Johnson could take the Land of Enchantment state.

"Because New Mexico hasn't been polled much, the survey had a fair amount of influence on our forecast, reducing Clinton's chances of winning New Mexico to 82 percent from 85 percent in the polls-only model," Silver said.

"Most of the time, Trump would be the beneficiary of a Clinton loss in New Mexico. But the model also assigns Johnson, the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee, an outside chance — 2 or 3 percent — of winning the state."

The Journal's poll of 501 likely New Mexico voters was Sept. 27-29 and has a margin of error of 4.4 percent.

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/gary-johnson-libertarian-win-new-mexico/2016/10/03/id/751395/#ixzz4M2nzRjWd

[Dos Equis]

Libertarian Gary Johnson Releases List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees
Brian Doherty
Nov. 1, 2016

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson today released a list of six prospective Supreme Court nominees.

They are:

• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski;

• Libertarian legal scholar Randy Barnett of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution;

• D.C. Circuit Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown;

• Former Republican Congressman from California Tom Campbell, currently Dean of Chapman University School of Law;

• Miguel Estrada, a lawyer with the firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher;

• Law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University Law School.

Johnson had previously been talking up Turley and Campbell. He also spoke against specific issue litmus tests for Supreme Court picks, as Damon Root reported.

Some past Reason links on some of these choices:

• Interviews with Judge Kozinski from 2013 by Matt Welch and from 2006 by Shikha Dalmia.

• Interview with Randy Barnett by Damon Root from June 2016, and with Nick Gillespie from August.

• Damon Root praised Judge Brown in 2015. More praise for Brown's decisions from Root from May 2016.

• ReasonTV interview with Tom Campbell from 2009. Campbell wrote for Reason in 2008 in opposition to the state's Proposition 8, banning gay marriage.

A May 2009 Reason feature speculating on replacements for Justice Souter had votes from our distinguished panel of judge-pickers for Barnett (3), Kozinski (2), Brown (2), and Estrada (1).

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/01/libertarian-gary-johnson-releases-list-o