On February 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C., will hear Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission, 19-5117. This is the case over whether the Commission on Presidential Debates is violating federal campaign law by setting the rules for general election presidential debates so as to make it inevitable that only the Democratic and Republican nominees will ever qualify. The three judges who will hear the case are now known. They are Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee; Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee; and A. Raymond Randolph, a Bush Sr. appointee.

The hearing is at 9:30 am, and the panel only has two cases that day. However, each side only has ten minutes to argue.

On February 20, James R. Adams submitted his main brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Carney v Adams, 19-309. This is the case in which Adams is challenging a provision of the Delaware Constitution that says the only persons who are eligible to serve on most of the state courts are members of a party that has registration of at least 5%. The lower courts had struck down the Delaware rule, and then the state appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court agreed to hear it.

Adams is a registered independent.

February 17 was the deadline for presidential primary candidates to file their petitions in Pennsylvania. Eight Democrats submitted petitions: Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren.

Three Republicans, Rocky De La Fuente, President Donald Trump, and William Weld, submitted petitions.