Jeff Coleman is a Republican candidate for U.S. House, second district, who filed for the Republican primary on February 10. That was one day before the deadline set out in the redistricting decision by a 3-judge U.S. District Court. But his ballot access is doubtful because the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the order of the U.S. District Court on February 7, and the state won’t recognize candidates who relied on the date change made by the U.S. District Court.

Coleman asked the 3-judge court to resolve the matter, but in response the state says Coleman has no right to intervene in the case. Presumably the state expects him to file his own entirely new lawsuit, which of course takes time. Here is the state’s brief, opposing Coleman’s request to intervene in Singleton v Merrill, n.d., 2:21cv-1291.