The Ninth Circuit will hear Pierce v Jacobsen, 21-35173, on February 9, 2022. This is the case over Montana’s ban on out-of-state circulators for initiatives. The U.S. District Court had upheld the ban.
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On November 22, the plaintiffs filed this brief in Barja v Nago, 1:20cv-433. This is the case over whether U.S. citizens who move from a state to Guam should be permitted to continue voting absentee in their former state. When U.S. citizens move to a foreign country, they are permitted to continue voting absentee in their last residence within the U.S. But when they move to Guam, they cannot do that. The case is filed in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii, because that is the former residence of the plaintiff-voters.
This case was formerly styled Reeves v Nago.
The Austin Chronicle is a free weekly print alternative newspaper in Austin, Texas. It has a law question-and-answer column written by Luke Ellis. In this issue, a reader asks how an independent candidate gets on the ballot in Texas, and the author is detailed and accurate, and shows how bad the law is. See the column here.
As the columnn says, any 2022 independent candidate must file paperwork before the end of 2021. However, if the Texas 2022 primary is postponed due to any court changing the redistricting, there would be some relief from such an early deadline. The column did not mention there there is also a ballot access lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court that, if it wins, would change the procedure.
On November 30, a California Republican national committeewoman, who is also an attorney, filed a lawsuit in the California Supreme Court to direct the California Redistricting Commission to stop holding unpublicized meetings. See this story, which has a link to the Complaint. The case is Moreno v Citizens Redistricting Commission. The court has asked for a response by December 7.
Honduras held a presidential and a congressional election on November 28, 2021. Fifteen candidates were on the ballot for president. Xiomara Castro, nominee of the Liberty & Refoundation Party, was elected with 52.7%.
Nine parties won some representation in Congress. Honduras uses proportional representation for congressional elections. See this wikipedia story.