Spain held a parliamentary election on November 10, 2019. See this wikipedia article. Fifteen parties won seats under the proportional representation system, although a few of those parties are themselves coalitions. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
On November 10, Don Blankenship publicly announced his presidential candidacy. See this story in The Hill. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
Ksmama Sawant, a leader of Socialist Alternative, appears to have been re-elected to the Seattle city council. The election was November 5, 2019, and not all the ballots are counted yet, so this outcome is not yet certain. See this story. Thanks to Steve Kamp for this news.
On November 5, the Libertarian National Committee filed this reply brief in Libertarian National Committee v Federal Election Commission, 19-234. This is the case over whether the Constitution permits the FEC to prevent parties from receiving large bequests when the estate is probated, so that the party must wait to receive the money over a period of years.
The Court has put this case on its November 22 conference.
The Fourth Circuit will hear Johnston v Lamone, 19-1783, during the last week of January 2020. The exact date hasn’t been set yet. This is the case in which the Maryland Libertarian Party argues that there is no rational reason for it to collect 10,000 signatures on a petition to restore its party status, given that it has 22,000 registered members. The U.S. District Court had ruled against the party, speculating that perhaps the party’s registrants are still registered Libertarian by default and no longer care about the party. There is no evidence in the case to support that idea.
