As previously reported, some Illinois Election Board officials are trying to persuade the Seventh Circuit to reverse the ballot access relief won in April 2020. Libertarian Party of Illinois v Pritzker, 20-1961.

On August 14, the Illinois minor parties submitted this two-page notice of supplemental authority, notifying the Seventh Circuit judges of the August 13 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Republican National Committee v Common Cause Rhode Island. In the Rhode Island case, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay the decision of lower federal courts in Rhode Island that granted relief to absentee voters in Rhode Island. The U.S. Supreme Court said on August 13 that because Rhode Island government had consented to the relief, therefore that relief will not be disturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Illinois letter brief points out that Illinois had also consented to the April 2020 ballot access relief.