On June 4, the plaintiffs challenging certain Illinois ballot access laws filed this brief in Team Kennedy v Illinois State Board of Elections, n.d., 1:24cv-7027. The plaintiffs are the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. independent campaign, the Illinois Libertarian Party, and independent U.S. House candidate Angel Oakley.

The case challenges the 90-day window for circulating independent and minor party petitions, the law that says circulators who circulated a primary petition anywhere in the U.S. cannot circulate a general election petition, and the requirement that each sheet be notarized.

On June 4, the Ninth Circuit said it will rehear Moving Oxnard Forward v Ascension, 21-56295. The original panel had ruled that the Oxnard, California limits on how much a donor may contribute to a candidate for city office are too low, and also that the limits had been passed with the improper motive of injuring Aaron Starr, a member of the Libertarian Party who is now on the city council.

The rehearing will be in September, before eleven judges of the Ninth Circuit chosen randomly.

On May 28, the New Hampshire House Election Law Committee passed SB 222. It moves the non-presidential primary from September to June. The bill decouples the petition deadline for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties from the date of the primary. It says the petition deadline would be eleven weeks before the general election, which keeps it in August. Unfortunately, the bill doesn’t decouple the deadline for filing a declaration of candidacy, so if the bill becomes law, independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties would need to file the declaration in March, which. In the case of presidential candidates, that would violate Anderson v Celebrezze.