U.S. District Court Judge William O. Bertelsman will hold oral argument in Sweeney v Crigler, e.d., 2:19cv-46, on Thursday, January 9, 2020, at 1 p.m. This is the case that challenges the 2019 Kentucky law that said that candidates of parties that nominate by convention must file a declaration of candidacy in January of election years. The law only applied to candidates for state and local partisan office, not federal office.

The law was enjoined earlier this year, and now the constitutionality of the law will be considered.