On June 15, leaders of the Ohio Green Party, and two of the Green Party candidates for the presidential nomination of the party, filed this brief in the Ohio Green ballot access case, Hawkins v DeWine, s.d., 2:20cv-2781. The state is trying to have the case dismissed because the Sixth Circuit had denied ballot access relief for Ohio initiatives in Thompson v DeWine. The plaintiffs argue that Thompson v DeWine was wrongly decided, rather than distinguishing between initiative ballot access and minor party/independent candidate ballot access.

Thompson v DeWine is pending in the U.S. Supreme Court.