On July 23, Joseph Kishore, the Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate, filed this brief in the Sixth Circuit in his Michigan ballot access case. Kishore v Whitmer, 20-1661. He wants to be on the ballot as an independent candidate, which requires 12,000 signatures, to be collected from mid-January to mid-July. He argues that the health crisis made this impossible. No statewide independent candidate petitions were submitted by anyone in Michigan this year. The U.S. District Court had denied him relief on July 8.