On June 6, Perry Johnson, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to be put back on the August 2 primary ballot. Johnson v Michigan Board of State Canvassers, e.d., 2:22cv-11232. The issue is whether the state used due process when it invalidated his petition. He needed 15,000 signatures and he submitted 23,193. But the state determined that many of his petitioners committed fraud, and invalidated all of the signatures collected by those individuals, without checking each signature. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news. Here is the Complaint.

The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Mark A. Goldsmith.