The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Hall v Merrill, 18-1362, on October 1, 2019. This is the Alabama ballot access case in which a U.S. District Court struck down the 3% petition for independent candidates for U.S. … Continue reading
The Upstate Jobs Party, a New York party that is not ballot-qualified, has some nominees in the 2019 local partisan elections. It has filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court, Onondaga County, over the law that says its nominees can’t … Continue reading
Jeremy B. White here writes for Politico that a side effect of the California tax returns-ballot bill, if it is not invalidated in court, would be to lower Republican turnout in the March 2020 primary. Because California has its primary … Continue reading
On August 13, the California Secretary of state asked the U.S. District Court in San Diego to transfer De La Fuente v Padilla to the U.S. District Court in Sacramento. This is the case in which Rocky De La Fuente … Continue reading
On August 13, the Arkansas Libertarian Party responded to the Secretary of State’s letter that asks the Eighth Circuit to temporarily remove the party from the 2020 ballot. The Secretary of State had told the Eighth Circuit that the U.S. … Continue reading
