On March 20, a U.S. District Court in Connecticut said that the lawsuit Green Party of Connecticut v Garfield should proceed to a trial. The case challenges a law passed in 2005 that sets up discriminatory public funding for candidates for Connecticut state office. The state and its ally, the Brennan Center, had tried to get the case dismissed summarily.
Because the Brennan Center’s work on election protection issues has been so valuable, it’s depressing to see them on the wrong side of this one.