On April 28, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Georgia Libertarian Party to file its cert petition in its ballot access lawsuit by July 29. The party had asked for an extension. Without the extension, the cert petition would have been due June 29. Cowen v Raffensperger, 21A647.

The issue is the petition requirement for independent and minor party candidates for U.S. House. No minor party has ever been able to comply with the requirement since before 1943. The 5% petition was created in 1943. Before 1943, no petition and no fee was required.

On May 6, a Georgia Administrative Law Judge ruled that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene does qualify to run for Congress. He said the evidence presented against her does not clearly show that she engaged in “insurrection”, as discussed in the Fourteenth Amendment. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.

The Congresswoman is still arguing in the Eleventh Circuit that the state had no right to judge her qualifications, but perhaps that case will be considered moot.

On May 5, Alaska SB 161 passed the House Judiciary Committee. It had already passed the State Senate and the House State Affairs Committee. This is the bill to ease the definition of a qualified party.