Actress Diane Neal says she will run for U.S. House in New York’s 19th district as an independent candidate. See this story. The story appears to say she will petition as an independent candidate, instead of seeking the nomination of … Continue reading
Last week U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles ordered North Carolina to hold 2018 primaries for State Supreme Court and State Court of Appeals judges. This lawsuit was in response to a 2017 North Carolina law that eliminated such primaries, … Continue reading
This newspaper story from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, describes the second day of the trial in Libertarian Party of South Dakota v Krebs, the U.S. District Court lawsuit over minor party ballot access in South Dakota. The story has a … Continue reading
On February 7, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released an explanation for its decision from last week to find that the State Constitution forbids partisan gerrymandering. Here is the majority opinion in League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v Commonwealth, 159 … Continue reading
On February 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order in North Carolina v Covington, 17A790. The lower 3-judge U.S. District Court had determined that some of the legislative district boundaries represent an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The 3-judge court had … Continue reading
