On April 27, Muhammad Abdurrahman filed his reply brief in the Eighth Circuit in Abdurrahman v Dayton, 16-4551. He is the 2016 Minnesota Democratic presidential elector who sued to overturn the Minnesota law that says presidential electors who vote in the electoral college for the “wrong” presidential candidate are deemed to no longer be an elector.

The U.S. District Court dismissed the case before Abdurrahman had even had a chance to make the case that the Minnesota law violates the U.S. Constitution. The issue in the Eighth Circuit is whether the U.S. District Court should be told to let the case proceed. There is still no hearing date in the Eighth Circuit, but it could possibly be in June.