On November 21, the Peace & Freedom Party and the Libertarian Party of California, along with the Green Party of Alameda County, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Alameda County, complaining that Proposition 14, the “top-two” measure passed in … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2011
On January 9, 2012, Monday, a U.S. District Court will hear oral arguments in Green Party of Tennessee v Hargett, the lawsuit that challenges the new ballot access law passed by the Tennessee legislature this year. In 2010, the same … Continue reading
On November 19, former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode addressed the Constitution Party of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Lancaster daily newspaper wrote this story about Goode’s talk. … Continue reading
Election law professor Justin Levitt has a comprehensive web page, “All About Redistricting”. See it at redistricting.lls.edu. Among other features, it has information about all known lawsuits involving redistricting since the 2010 census results came out.
On November 18, a 3-judge U.S. District Court in Illinois heard arguments in a Republican Party lawsuit against Illinois’ new U.S. House district boundaries. This article says both sides are pondering whether to arrange for a later petitioning period for … Continue reading