The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Martin v Moore, 17-156, at its conference of Friday, October 6. This is the case in which Arkansas is trying to persuade the Court to hear its appeal. The Eighth Circuit had ruled that unless the state can demonstrate that it needs a March petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidate to have enough time to check the signatures, then the March petition deadline is unconstitutional. The Eighth Circuit had then sent the case back to the U.S. District Court to give the state a chance to prove its contention. But attorneys for the state were not happy with that outcome, and asked the U.S. Supreme Court to countermand it.