Here is a news story about the name change of the Arizona No Labels Party to the Arizona Independent Party.
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An initiative petition is circulating in Nebraska that would end the practice of letting each U.S. House district elect its own presidential elector. See this story.
Federal court work will be somewhat slowed, due to the federal government partial shutdown. See this story from The Hill.
On October 16, the U.S. Supreme Court removed Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v Howe from its November 7 conference. This is the case on North Dakota legislative redistricting. The lower court had ruled that the case couldn’t even be considered because only the federal government can file lawsuits using the Voting Rights Act. Probably the U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider whether to hear the North Dakota case until after it decides the pending Louisiana districting case.
In other U.S. Supreme Court news, the court will hear oral argument in National Republican Senatorial Committee v Federal Election Commission on December 9. This is the case over the federal campaign finance law that restricts political party spending.
As of October 17, the Speaker of the U.S. House is still refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, who was elected to Congress in a special Arizona election on September 23. In 1966 the U.S. House speaker had similarly refused to swear in Adam Clayton Powell, who had been re-elected from New York. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that the House had been wrong to refuse to seat him. Here is a description of Powell v McCormack, 395 US 486.