On July 7, U.S. District Court judge Wilma Lewis, an Obama appointee, issued an opinion in Coffelt v Fawkes, civil-2014-025. The 41-page decision determines that in the U.S. Virgin Islands, registered party members are not permitted to be independent candidates. … Continue reading
On July 14, a 3-judge U.S. District Court in San Antonio began the trial in the case in which the U.S. Justice Department says that the last Texas redistricting plan violates the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. See … Continue reading
Jeremy Alford, who writes the blog Louisiana Politics, here makes the case that Congressman Vance McAllister ought to leave the Republican Party and become an independent, and run for re-election that way. The reason is that, according to Alford, the … Continue reading
This Boston Globe article says that filing has now closed for candidates running in Massachusetts primaries this year, and in six of the state’s nine U.S. House districts, no Republican filed. Although the article is fairly lengthy, and tries to … Continue reading
This year, all three statewide minor party petitions were challenged in Illinois. The “record check” to examine each challenged signature starts on Monday, July 14, for the Libertarian petition and the Constitution petition. The process involves a representative of the … Continue reading
