Two previously-introduced election law bills in the California legislature have been amended to change the rules for recall petitions. See this story. The authors of the bills, AB 132 and SB 117, are Democrats who hope to prevent the recall … Continue reading
On August 21, U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, a Bush Jr. appointee, upheld the decision of Pennsylvania’s elections department last year to exclude Rocky De La Fuente from the general election ballot, on the grounds that De La … Continue reading
On August 17, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila heard Koller v Brown, the case that challenges the California law telling presidential electors that they must vote in the Electoral College for the presidential candidate who carried California. The state … Continue reading
The Seventh Circuit held oral argument in Libertarian Party of Illinois v Scholz on February 24, 2017, and still hasn’t released its decision. This is the case in which the U.S. District Court last year struck down the Illinois law … Continue reading
The Eleventh Circuit will hear Hall v Merrill the week of November 13-17. This is the case in which the U.S. District Court last year had struck down Alabama ballot access laws for independent candidates as applied to special congressional … Continue reading
