Opinion handed down May 20, 2016
In Peters v. Johns, the Supreme Court of Missouri resolved the constitutionality
of requiring a state representative candidate to register in Missouri for at
least two years to be eligible for election.[1] The court ruled with a 4-3
margin that the refusal to register is not an act of “symbolic speech,” and
that the requirement does not violate either the First or Fourteenth Amendments
of the U.S. Constitution.[2]