City & State has this news story about the Pennsylvania Green Party and its petition drive to place three statewide nominees on the ballot.
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Scotusblog here suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to accept the cert petition in Fitisemanu v U.S., the case over whether persons born in American Samoa are automatically citizens. The lower court had ruled that they are not. The case arose when some individuals living in Utah, who were born in American Samoa and who never went through the naturalization process, could register to vote in Utah. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Marc J. Victor has qualified to appear on the Arizona Libertarian primary ballot of August 2, 2022. He is the first Libertarian to qualify for the Libertarian primary ballot in Arizona, for any federal or state office, since the legislature made primary ballot access for small established parties very difficult. That change was made in 2015.
Other Libertarians this year have filed as write-ins in the primary, but the 2015 law makes it extremely difficult for established minor parties to nominate by write-in in their own primary.
Qualified minor parties that have not been on the ballot for very long are permitted to nominate by write-in in their own primaries, with only a single write-in vote. Thus the Green Party had nominees on the Arizona ballot in 2016 and 2018. But in 2020 and this year, the Green Party is not ballot-qualified.
The Missouri legislature adjourned on May 13. None of the bill to make the initiative process more difficult passed. Thanks to Ken Bush for this news.
New York Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 19, at 10 a.m., in Bath, New York. The purpose of the hearing will be to consider petitioning relief for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, for the 2022 election. Here is the order setting up the hearing.