On January 30, the U.S. Supreme Court asked Arizona to respond to the Libertarian Party’s ballot access cert petition (Arizona Libertarian Party v Hobbs, 19-757).  Since then the state has obtained time extensions repeatedly.  The original deadline was March 2.  Then it was moved to April 1, and then May 1, and now the state wants a delay until May 7.  The Court almost always grants these time extensions.

The issue is the law that makes it almost impossible for members of small ballot-qualified parties to get on their own party’s primary ballot.  The law only pertains to small qualified parties that have been on the ballot in the last two elections. so besides being repressive, it is discriminatory.  That is why numerous Green Party candidates were on the ballot in 2016 and 2018, but no Libertarians for any state or federal office except president.  The law does not affect presidential elections.