Last week U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles ordered North Carolina to hold 2018 primaries for State Supreme Court and State Court of Appeals judges. This lawsuit was in response to a 2017 North Carolina law that eliminated such primaries, … Continue reading
This newspaper story from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, describes the second day of the trial in Libertarian Party of South Dakota v Krebs, the U.S. District Court lawsuit over minor party ballot access in South Dakota. The story has a … Continue reading
On February 7, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released an explanation for its decision from last week to find that the State Constitution forbids partisan gerrymandering. Here is the majority opinion in League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v Commonwealth, 159 … Continue reading
On February 6, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order in North Carolina v Covington, 17A790. The lower 3-judge U.S. District Court had determined that some of the legislative district boundaries represent an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The 3-judge court had … Continue reading
On February 5, the South Dakota House State Affairs Committee passed HB 1286 by a vote of 8-4. It lowers the number of signatures for a newly-qualifying party from 2.5% of the last gubernatorial vote, to 1% of the last … Continue reading
