On May 11, the New York Libertarian Party, as well as independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare, asked the state trial court that invalidated the U.S. House and State Senate districts to let them intervene. The intervention would be for the purpose of judicial relief for the 2022 petitions for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties. The candidates ask for fewer signatures for statewide candidates, an elimination of the distribution requirement for the statewide petitions, and an extension of the petition deadline from May 31 to June 27. The case is Harkenrider v Hochul, in the Supreme Court, Steuben County.

Here is the brief. Without judicial relief, the statewide petitions must have 500 signatures from each of half the U.S. House districts, and yet the district boundaries won’t be known until May 20, and the petition deadline is May 29.