On June 25, a brief schedule was set out for Cornel West’s Pennsylvania ballot access case, a case that had been filed in 2024. It concerns Pennsylvania’s discriminatory law on presidential elector candidate filing. Qualified parties merely need to submit a list of their presidential elector candidates; the electors themselves need do nothing. But for other parties and independent candidates, each elector candidate must submit his or her own notarized declaration of candidacy. The case has already survived the state’s motion to dismiss. West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24cv-1349.

West’s brief is due July 31. The state’s brief is due August 31. Reply briefs will all be submitted by September 28.