On February 22, Connecticut government attorneys filed a brief in support of the state law that bans out-of-state circulators for primary petitions. The plaintiff, Shawn Wilmoth, wants to circulate a petition to put Rocky De La Fuente on the Democratic presidential primary in Connecticut. The state says the Democratic Party has an interest in preventing non-members of the party from circulating Democratic primary petitions. However, the Democratic Party has not intervened in this lawsuit.

Wilmoth lives in Michigan, a state that doesn’t have registration by party. Therefore, he can’t prove that he is a Democrat, although the state can’t prove that he isn’t a Democrat.