The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Arizona Libertarian Party v Hobbs, 19-757, at its Thursday, June 11 conference. This is the ballot access case. The Arizona law is not only repressive, it is discriminatory. It made it impossible for the Arizona Libertarian Party to place any candidates for Congress or partisan state office on the ballot in both 2016 and 2018. Yet the same law exempted the Green Party from those same stringent requirements, and Greens had easy procedures in 2016 and 2018 (although the Green Party went off the ballot in Arizona in November 2018).

The U.S. Supreme Court has not accepted any ballot access case filed by a minor party or an independent candidate since 1991. It would be very significant if it accepts this one. The Court has already shown some interest in the case, because it asked the state to respond to the Libertarian cert petition.