On March 31, a Michigan Republican candidate for U.S. House, Eric Esshaki, filed a federal lawsuit to ease the Michigan primary petition requirements for candidates. Since then, several other candidates have moved to intervene in the case. Two, Matt Savich and Daniel Finley, are running for nonpartisan judicial posts. Like Esshaki, they each need 1,000 signatures.
Also an independent candidate for president, Kyle Kopitke, who needs 12,000 signatures by July, asked to intervene. And Whitney Williams, a Republican running for U.S. House, intevened on the side of the state, because she already obtained her signatures and doesn’t want another opponent.
The hearing was April 15. Here is a news story about the hearing.
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/33257044/Esshaki_v_Whitmer_et_al
docket stuff – pdfs
The ACLU chose to represent…a Republican candidate, a candidate that is a member of one of the country’s two election rigging ruling parties. I guess the ACLU really doesn’t care about third party or Independent candidates anymore, or truly free and fair elections either. If they did, they would have intervened by now in the much more egregious situation here in Illinois. Thank goodness for the Center for Competitive Democracy, at least they’re helping us here. http://www.competitivedemocracy.org/news/
Every state ACLU affiliate has its own feelings about what projects they want to carry out. It would be good for minor party activists to become active in their own state’s ACLU.