On May 18, Robby Starbuck Newsom voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit to get on the Tennessee Republican primary ballot for Congress. Newsom v Golden, m.d., 3:22cv-318. The Republican Party of Tennessee had passed a rule saying no one could run for congress who had not voted in three of the last four Tennessee Republican primaries. Newsom could not comply with this because he hadn’t been living in Tennessee that long. Therefore, the party rule functioned as a duration of residency requirement.

The U.S. District Court had denied him injunctive relief, but the declaratory judgment part of the case was still alive. However, Newsom apparently didn’t wish to continue the case to settle the issue.