On September 24, U.S. Senate independent candidates Dan Osborn of Nebraska, and Brian Bengs of South Dakota, said that if they are both elected, they will caucus with each other. This is a clever response for the people who have been asking each one of them which major party would they caucus with if they got elected. The two are saying “neither” Republican nor Democratic. See this story.
Aaron Day, a New Hampshire independent and a former Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate, has organized the Stark Freedom PAC (named for Revolutionary war hero General John Stark). On September 24 it announced that it will spend $2,500,000 in independent expenditures boosting the campaigns of four Libertarian nominees for U.S. Senate, and two Constitution Party nominees for U.S. Senate.
The four Libertarians are running in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, and Texas. The two Constitution nominees are in Michigan and New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, Aaron Day himself has withdrawn from the New Hampshire Senate race. He had petitioned as an independent and had enough valid signatures, but has withdrawn.
On September 23, the Sixth Circuit lifted the stay the U.S. District Court had imposed on the Ohio law that requires individuals registering to vote at Motor Vehicle offices must provide proof of citizenship. The order is unsigned. One judge dissented. The two judges in the majority are Whitney Hermandorfer and John Nalbandian, Trump appointees. The dissenting judge is Kevin Ritz, a Biden appointee. Red Wine & Blue v LaRose, 26-3813. Here is the order.
On September 23, twenty-two states filed this amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in the dispute over Missouri’s U.S. House districts. The brief supports the 2025 map. The states are: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. All of these states have Republican Attorneys General.
The only states that have Republican Attorneys General and which did not sign this brief (other than Missouri) are: New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wyoming.
