On January 16, independent congressional candidate David Gill filed a notice of appeal in his ballot access case, which challenges the Illinois petition requirement for U.S. House, 5% of the last vote cast. No one has used this petition successfully for that office, if anyone filed a challenge, since 1974. Yet last month a U.S. District Court upheld the law without even allowing a trial. Gill is appealing to the Seventh Circuit, where the case number is 19-1125.