On November 11, a paid petitioning firm, Advanced Micro Targeting, filed a federal lawsuit to stop another organization that is playing dirty tricks to stop the Missouri referendum petition that AMT is circulating. Advanced Micro Targeting v Let the Voters Decide, w.d. Missouri, 4:25cv-881. Let the Voters Decide is a Florida organization that is not actually trying to help get anyone or any organization on the ballot in any state. Instead it is trying to persuade employees of AMT to break their contract and to take other steps to sabotage the Missouri referendum.

Here is the Complaint. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Greg Kays, a Bush Jr. appointee.

There appears to be no level to which the Republican Party won’t stoop to attack the Citizen Initiative & Referendum process in some states. Richard Winger has previously blogged about the effort in Missouri to place a referendum on the ballot in 2026 to overturn the latest state legislature gerrymandering of the US House district map.

Here is a recent story on what the Republican Party of Missouri is up to now.

Last month, nine state Libertarian Parties filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving the constitutionality of civil assert forfeiture in certain situations. The case is Barton v Securities & Exchange Commission, 25-465. The state parties are Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.

Also the We the People Party of Pennsylvania signed on. Here is the amicus.