On June 29, U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell moved the hearing in Arizona Libertarian Party v Reagan from August 5 to July 12. The issue is the constitutionality of the bill passed last year that sharply expands the number of write-in votes Libertarians need in their own primary in order to be considered nominated, and also the number of signatures needed for a Libertarian to get on the primary ballot. The primary is August 30. On July 1, the party filed its reply brief.

The hearing is 10:30 a.m. in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, room 603. A few newspaper stories have appeared in Arizona lately saying the State Supreme Court upheld the new law. These stories are incorrect. The only action the state courts took was to determine that the party’s candidate for U.S. Senate failed to obtain enough signatures to get on the party’s primary ballot; the state courts have not said anything about the constitutionality of the new law.