On September 12, Jamie Raskin won his Democratic primary race for a seat in the Maryland State Senate, defeating the incumbent Democratic Senator.

Raskin is an attorney who represented an independent candidate in the only U.S. Supreme Court case over entry to candidate debates (Arkansas Educational TV v Forbes). Raskin also represented the Reform Party in the 9th circuit in 1998, in a challenge to a federal public campaign funding law that provides unequal general election funding to parties that got over 5%, but under 25%, of the last presidential vote. He also wrote “Overruling Democracy”, a book that criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court’s hostility toward minor parties and independent candidates.