On May 3, U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Cogan enjoined the New York law that prohibits out-of-state petitioners. Schmidt v Kosinski, e.d., 1:22cv-2210. Here is the three-page preliminary Injunction. Out-of-state circulators must promise to consent to the jurisdiction of … Continue reading
On Monday afternoon, May 2, a U.S. District Court heard oral arguments in Schmidt v Kosinski, e.d., 1:22cv-2210. A decision is expected this week on the Libertarian Party’s request for injunctive relief against the ban on out-of-state circulators.
On May 2, Robby Starbuck Newsom, a Republican candidate for Congress in Tennessee, filed a federal lawsuit to get himself on the Republican primary ballot. The state Republican Party had barred him from its primary ballot because he had not … Continue reading
On the evening of May 2, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed S8949, the bill passed earlier that day that allows indicted candidates to remove themselves from ballots.
The U.S. Supreme Court is very likely to allow states to almost completely ban abortion. This Vox article has a map showing the 22 states that have abortion bans on their statute books. Eleven of these states have the statewide … Continue reading
