On July 17, Gloria La Riva, the presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism & Liberation, filed a federal lawsuit against the District of Columbia presidential petition requirement. The District requires the presidential nominees of unqualified parties, and independent presidential candidates, to submit over 5,000 valid signatures. But the D.C. law was changed earlier this year to lower the other partisan districtwide petitions from 3,000 signatures to 250 signatures, for 2020 only, due to the health crisis. It is puzzling why the law was not also eased for presidential petitions.

Here is the Complaint in La Riva v D.C. Board of Elections, 1:20cv-1937.