On Friday, April 12, the Third Circuit heard arguments in Kim v Hanlon, 24-1594. The judges are Kent Jordan (Bush Jr. appointee), Cheryl Ann Krause (Obama), and Arianna J. Freeman (Biden). This is the lawsuit over New Jersey’s ballot format … Continue reading
Both of Nebraska’s U.S. Senate seats are on the ballot this year. There is a special election for the seat that last came up in 2020, and there is the regular election for a six-year term for the other seat. … Continue reading
Earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. supporters filed a petition to qualify the We the People Party in Hawaii. Kennedy created the party because the number of signatures for a new party in Hawaii is so much easier than … Continue reading
Pennsylvania voting rights groups have been joined by the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, in an attempt to persuade the Third Circuit to rehear Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP Branches v Secretary, 23-3166. This is the case over whether … Continue reading
On April 11, the Nebraska legislature passed LB 20, which lets persons convicted of a felony register to vote immediately after serving their term of imprisonment. Existing law says they must wait two years after release. The vote in the … Continue reading
In presidential years, Washington elects a partisan statewide office called Commissioner of Public Lands. Recently a Washington Democratic State Senator, Rebecca Saldana, withdrew from the primary, because otherwise there would have been four strong Democratic candidates for that office, and … Continue reading