The Ninth Circuit will hear Mecinas v Hobbs, 20-16301, on Friday, January 14. This is the Democratic Party’s lawsuit against the Arizona law on the order of candidates on the general election ballot. The three judges will be Johnnie B. Rawlinson and Jed Rakoff (Clinton appointees), and Paul J. Watford (an Obama appointee). The lower court had upheld the law, which says that the party that placed first in the preceding gubernatorial election inside that county gets the top position for all its nominees.