On May 6, the New York State Board of Elections appealed the U.S. District Court decision in Yang v Kellner, the decision that said New York must hold a presidential primary on June 23. In the second circuit, it is case 20-1494.
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Ballotpedia has this useful list of lawsuits filed that concern election procedures and the health crisis. The list links to documents concerning each lawsuit.
Ian Millhiser, a prominent author and legal expert, has this essay at Vox about the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court hearing in the presidential elector cases from Washington and Colorado.
His analysis is flawed because he says that in 1952,. the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Ray v Blair that states could require candidates for presidential elector to take an oath that they would vote for the presidential candidate of their party if they were elected. This is not true. Ray v Blair only decided that the Democratic Party of Alabama could bar candidates from their primary unless they took such an oath. Back then, the Alabama Democratic Party chose its presidential elector candidates in a primary. No state currently does that. In all states, presidential elector candidates are nominated by their own party’s state convention or other state meeting (except that in Pennsylvania, the nominees for president choose their own presidential elector candidates).
In 1952 in Alabama, the people taking the oath were not yet presidential electors. They weren’t even nominees for presidential elector. They were only individuals running in a party primary, hoping to win the primary and then become candidates for presidential elector. Ray v Blair was a decision about the rights of political parties to control who gets on their own primary ballot, not a decision about whether states can tell presidential electors what to do.
On May 6, Monmouth University Polls released a poll for the presidential election.
See it here. Scroll down to question 31 to see the results. Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
This article explains that an initiative in Illinois to create a nonpartisan redistricting commission has stalled, due to the health crisis. However, the article does not say that it is still possible a U.S. District Court in Chicago will give the organizers of initiatives some relief. The case is Morgan v White, n.d., 1:20cv-2189. U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer initially denied relief, but since then she has signaled that she is reconsidering. A hearing will be held Thursday, May 7.