The Party for Socialism and Liberation will petition in 2026 to get Joseph Tache on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Here is his campaign website. In the past, PSL has not petitioned for any partisan office in midterm years.
The party also expects to petition for a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, Greg Levy.
This article quotes a legal scholar on the subject of how members of Congress are sworn in. The scholar notes that the Constitution itself refers to the swearing process, but does not say that only the Speaker can administer the oath.
The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to hear Watson v Republican National Committee, 24-1260, at its October 17 conference. But the order list of October 20 shows that the Court didn’t decide whether to hear it, and will relist it. This is the case in which the Fifth Circuit had invalidated the state law that says absentee ballots are valid if they arrive within three days of election day. The Fifth Circuit interpreted an 1872 federal law to mean that all ballots must be received by election day. No other court had ever come to that conclusion.
U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle will hear Ortiz v North Carolina State Board of Elections, e.d., 5:24cv-420, on Monday, November 10. This is the lawsuit over whether the State Board’s actions in 2024, trying to keep West off the ballot, violated the Constitution.
On October 10, a New Jersey state appellate court ruled that Gloucester County cannot use office-group ballots in general elections, and must reprint ballots using a party column format. See this story.
The lawsuit was Gloucester County Republican Committee v Hogan, L1286-25.
New Jersey law lets county clerks design ballots, but the Court said they are constrained by a state law that says a drawing shall be held before every election to determine the order of party columns. This was held to mean that there must be party columns.
Several other New Jersey counties have been using office-group ballots in general elections for years.
Here is what the Gloucester County ballot looked like before the court ruling.
