On September 18, the Federal Election Commission asked the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to respond to the Libertarian National Committee’s brief in the bequest case. The deadline is September 23 but the FEC asked for a delay until October 23. The U.S. Supreme Court always approves these requests.

This is the case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the FEC was correct, when it refused to let the Libertarian Party receive a bequest of $235,575 from Joseph Shaber (who is deceased), except on a piece-meal basis every year in small chunks.