On March 7, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Pennsylvania and North Carolina redistricting disputes. Republicans in both states had asked for U.S. Supreme Court intervention, and the Republican National Committee had filed amicus briefs. The Wisconsin case is still pending.
Here is the list of Democrats who filed for federal and state office in the Alabama primary of May 24. No Democrat filed for seven statewide offices: Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Auditor, Agriculture Commissioner, Public Service Commission place one, Public Service Commission place two, and Justice of the Supreme Court, place six.
Alabama doesn’t permit write-in votes in party primaries, so there is no method for Democrats to nominate anyone for those six offices.
For State Senate, Democrats are running someone in fourteen of the thirty-five seats. For State House, Democrats have someone in 47 of the 105 seats.
On March 4, the Alabama Democratic Party disqualified Victor Williams from the 2022 primary. He had filed for U.S. Senate. See this story, which describes Williams and his support for Donald Trump. After that story ran, Williams was removed from the primary ballot.
On March 4, Texas filed this brief in the Fifth Circuit in Longoria v Paxton, 22-50110. This is the lawsuit over whether Texas may make it a crime for a local election official to suggest to a voter that he or she apply for a mail ballot. The U.S. District Court had enjoined the law.
On March 7, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Thompson v DeWine, 21-1120, the case over whether ballot access relief should be given to initiative proponents during a health crisis.
