On June 30, proponents of some Oregon county initiatives filed a federal lawsuit for ballot access relief. McCarter v Brown, 6:20cv-1048. The proponents are trying to get county initiatives on the ballot of many counties, to test public opinion on moving many eastern Oregon counties into Idaho. McCarter v Brown, 6:20cv-1048.

The case is before U.S. District Court Judge Michael J. McShane, who already granted ballot access relief to a statewide Oregon initiative. Here is the Complaint in the new case. Thanks to Steve Kamp for this news.

On July 15, Joseph Kishore, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate, filed this brief in Kishore v Newsom, c.d., 2:20cv-5859. This is one of the two challenges to the California independent presidential petition procedure, which requires 196,964 signatures to be collected from late April through early August, a period entirely within the health crisis.

This case will be heard on July 20 at 2 p.m. by U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee.

On July 16, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Florida ex-felon voter registration case. Rick Hasen explains this news here. The vote was 6-3. Justices Sonya Sotomayor dissented and her dissent is also signed by Justices Ruth Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.