On September 22, the Eighth Circuit refused to stay its order of September 21. The September 21 decision told Missouri to use the 2025 maps for U.S. House. Onder v von Glahn, 26-2797. Now the voter-plaintiffs who want the 2022 maps are free to ask for U.S. Supreme Court intervention. Probably that paperwork will be filed late tonight.
On September 22, Tennessee independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley promised to contribute $1,000,000 to three particular charities if the Republican nominee, U.S. Senator Martha Blackburn, debates him and the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. So far there is no reaction for Blackburn.
On September 21, Pennsylvania filed this brief in West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24cv-1349. This is Cornel West’s lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s policy on paperwork for presidential elector candidates. Pennsylvania does not require the presidential elector candidates of a major party to file any documents whatsoever. But it requires presidential elector candidates pledged to independent and minor party presidential candidates to file notarized statements of candidacy. If even one elector on the state fails to do so, the presidential nominee is removed from the ballot.
In 2024, this law causes the removal of the presidential nominees of the Cornel West independent candidacy and the presidential nominees of the Constitution Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
On September 21, the Wisconsin Green Party filed this amicus in Americans for Citizen Voting PAC v Wolfe, e.d., 2:26cv-786. This is the lawsuit over Wisconsin’s new ban on out-of-state circulators. The Green Party amicus argues that the court should strike down the restriction.
The only anti-war party in Russia is the Yabloko Party. In the Russian legislative elections of September 18-20, it was removed from the ballot in the federal races, and in seven of the eight regional races. In the one region in which it was on the ballot, it received regional seats. See this story.
