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.
The Eleventh Circuit held oral argument in Wilding v Democratic National Committee Services Corp., 17-14194, on December 11, 2018. There is still no decision. It is somewhat unusual for courts to take this much time to issue an opinion, after the oral argument, at least in election law cases.
Wilding v DNC is the case filed by individuals who had contributed to the national Democratic Party in 2015 and 2016, and who supported Bernie Sanders for the 2016 nomination. They sued because they felt the Democratic National Committee had tilted the 2016 nomination contest against Sanders and for Hillary Clinton. The U.S. District Court had ruled against the Sanders supporters.
