On November 24, opponents of the new Texas U.S. House district boundaries filed this brief in the U.S. Supreme Court. Abbott v League of United Latin American Citizens v Abbott, 25A608.
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The Prohibition Party has qualified to have its registrations tallied in Alaska. The only other unqualified parties in Alaska that have that status are the Green, Constitution, Veterans, and Clowns Parties. In addition, the party is waiting to see if its petition for presidential status in 2028 has enough valid signatures.
The only states in which the Prohibition Party has never been on a government-printed ballot are Alaska, Hawaii, and South Carolina.
On November 21, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to hear Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v Howe, 25-253. But it didn’t make a decision about whether to hear the case, and will consider it again at a future conference. This is the case on North Dakota legislative redistricting, and whether only the federal government can initiative a Voting Rights Act case.
Also on November 21, the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to her the Birthright Citizenship cases, but did not take any action. They are Trump v Washington, 25-364 and Trump v Barbara, 25-365.
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE REPEALS LAW THAT ALMOST KEPT GREEN PARTY OFF 2024 BALLOT
On October 14, the Wisconsin legislature passed AB 149, which repeals a law that forced qualified parties to run candidates for the legislature if they wanted to be on the ballot for president.
The law says that qualified parties must choose their presidential elector candidates at an October meeting of the party’s legislators or their nominees for the legislature. The meeting must be in the state capitol. The law was passed in 1878 and had not been enforced in recent years. Qualified minor parties don’t generally have any candidates for the Wisconsin legislature, because it is difficult for their members to get on their own party’s primary ballot. For instance, in 2024, none of the three minor parties (Green, Constitution, and Libertarian) had any nominees for the legislature. Their candidates need 200 signatures to get on the primary ballot for State House, and 400 for State Senate.
In 2024, an employee of the Democratic National Committee who lives in Wisconsin filed a legal document asking the Elections Commission to keep Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, off the ballot because the Green Party had not chosen its presidential elector candidates according to the law, because it couldn’t. The Commission refused to remove Stein. If it had done so, logically it should also have removed the Libertarian and Constitution Party presidential nominees from the ballot, because their parties didn’t follow the law either.
The Libertarian Party is not listed on the District of Columbia voter registration form, because it has not been a qualified party since November 2022. People who want to register into an unqualified party must check the “other” box and write in their choice. However, Libertarian registration in D.C. has risen this year. It was 1,326 in June 2025 and is now 1,734. These figures were obtained using a Freedom of Information request to the D.C. Board of Elections.