On August 25, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied any relief in the Montana Secretary of State’s request to reinstate the Green Party. Justice Kagan did not refer it to any other justice, and she did not ask for a response from the other side. Stapleton v Montana Democratic Party, 20A33.

The same issue is still pending in the Ninth Circuit, in a different case filed not by the Secretary of State, but by some of the Green Party nominees. That case is Royal Davis v Stapleton, 20-35734.