On December 6, the U.S. Department of Justice filed its own federal lawsuit against the new Texas U.S. House and State House district boundaries. There were already six or seven other lawsuits pending against the Texas redistricting plans. This one is U.S. v State of Texas, w.d., 3:21cv-299. Here is the Complaint.

Even if you don’t intend to read the Complaint, it is worthwhile to scroll through it to see some of the maps, especially the Dallas area U.S. House district maps on page 18.

The lawsuit charges Texas with violating section 2 of the federal voting rights act.

On December 1, 2021, Jill Stein, Green Party presidential nominee in 2016, filed a Statement of Issues in the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. She is asking the Court to amend or reverse the Federal Election Commission decision earlier this year that she must repay $175,272 in 2016 primary season matching funds. See it here.

UPDATE: see this press release.

The Nevada Current has this story about the top-five initiative that will soon be circulating in Nevada.

Like other initiatives for top-two, top-four, and top-five, this one eliminates the easier method for a party to remain ballot-qualified. If the Nevada initiative became law, parties could no longer stay on the ballot by polling 1% of the statewide vote for any office. The vote test would shrink down to just president, and there would be no vote test at all in midterm years.

So far, all attempts to persuade top-anything proponents to address the problem have failed. One leader of the top-anything movement communicated via e-mail that it is “too late” to fix this problem in the group’s Missouri initiative.