This news story quotes Andrew Yang as saying that he has left the Democratic Party and is now an independent. The article does not explicitly say he has changed his registration (the New York state term for that is “enrollment”), but presumably he has done that, or will soon.
Buffalo, New York Mayor Byron Brown’s campaign is distributing rubber stamps to voters, to make it easier for voters to cast a write-in vote for him. See this story. The election is November 2, 2021.
Ralph Nader authors a long list of ways in which the Republican Party and the Democratic Party agree with each other on public policy, notwithstanding the common perception that they are poles apart. His article appears in Eurasia Review.
On September 30, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Federal Election Commission v Cruz for Senate, 21-12. The issue is a federal law that limits a candidate to raising no more than $250,000 after an election is over, for the purpose of paying back to the candidate money he or she had loaned to the campaign. The lower court had struck down the law. The FEC asked the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily reverse the lower court decision, and the Ted Cruz Senate Campaign asked the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily approve the lower court decision. But the Court will do neither, and will hear the case itself.
On October 4, the U.S. Supreme Court summarily affirmed the decision of a 3-judge U.S. District Court in Castanon v U.S., 20-1279. The lower court had ruled that nothing in the Constitution requires that the District of Columbia be entitled to a voting representative in the U.S. House.
Here is the brief of the D.C. voters in the U.S. Supreme Court, a brief that has now been rejected. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.
