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
On August 23, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed SB 149. This is the bill that forces candidates running in a presidential primary to reveal their income tax returns. The bill had already passed the Senate and had already passed … Continue reading
