Here is the new Gloucester County, New Jersey sample ballot for the November 2025 election. As noted earlier, New Jersey state courts ruled that the last week’s ballot, an office-group ballot, was illegal.
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation will petition in 2026 to get Joseph Tache on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Here is his campaign website. In the past, PSL has not petitioned for any partisan office in midterm years.
The party also expects to petition for a candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, Greg Levy.
This article quotes a legal scholar on the subject of how members of Congress are sworn in. The scholar notes that the Constitution itself refers to the swearing process, but does not say that only the Speaker can administer the oath.
The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to hear Watson v Republican National Committee, 24-1260, at its October 17 conference. But the order list of October 20 shows that the Court didn’t decide whether to hear it, and will relist it. This is the case in which the Fifth Circuit had invalidated the state law that says absentee ballots are valid if they arrive within three days of election day. The Fifth Circuit interpreted an 1872 federal law to mean that all ballots must be received by election day. No other court had ever come to that conclusion.
U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle will hear Ortiz v North Carolina State Board of Elections, e.d., 5:24cv-420, on Monday, November 10. This is the lawsuit over whether the State Board’s actions in 2024, trying to keep West off the ballot, violated the Constitution.