On September 18, the Montana Green Party filed this brief in U.S. District Court, in the party’s ballot access lawsuit. It challenges the strangely unequal distribution requirement for party petitions, and the early petition deadline. The case arose in 2018, after the party’s petition was rejected for not complying with the distribution requirement.
Aaron Lewis, a publisher and an independent candidate for Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, in the November 2019 election, as changed his voter registration from “Democratic” to “Libertarian”. See this story. However, it is too late for him to change his partisan label on the ballot.
On September 18, Level the Playing Field, the Green Party, and the Libertarian Party, filed this opening brief in Level the Playing Field v FEC, in the DC circuit. This is the case that concerns presidential debates in the general election.
According to Frontloading HQ, the Virginia Republican Party has voted to skip the 2020 presidential primary.
On September 18, the Federal Election Commission asked the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to respond to the Libertarian National Committee’s brief in the bequest case. The deadline is September 23 but the FEC asked for a delay until October 23. The U.S. Supreme Court always approves these requests.
This is the case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the FEC was correct, when it refused to let the Libertarian Party receive a bequest of $235,575 from Joseph Shaber (who is deceased), except on a piece-meal basis every year in small chunks.
