The U.S. Supreme Court is holding a conference on Friday, March 25, to decide whether to hear various cases. One of those cases is Green Party of Connecticut v Lenge, 10-795. This case challenges the Connecticut public funding law which says that all candidates for state office who wish to receive public funding must receive a certain number of small contributions; however that is all that Republicans and Democrats need to do, but in addition, independent candidates and the nominees of new parties must submit a petition of 20% of the last vote cast to receive equal public funding. They must submit a petition of 10% of the last vote cast to receive any public funding.

Scotusblog has included Green Party of Connecticut v Lenge in its list of eleven cases that it feels are somewhat likely to be accepted by the Court. See this Scotusblog description of each of the eleven cases that are on the agenda at the March 25 conference. The Court won’t release the news of what it has decided until Monday, March 28. Sometimes the Court considers a case at its conference but doesn’t decide whether to hear it, and re-schedules it for a later conference.