On August 15, Christopher Graveline, an independent candidate for Michigan Attorney General, filed this brief in his ballot access case, Graveline v Johnson, e.d., 2:18cv-12354.

He filed the case last year, against the requirement that he obtain 30,000 signatures by mid-July. He won injunctive relief and was placed on the ballot. Now the courts must decide if the requirement is unconstitutional. It is likely that they will, given that last year they felt his case was strong enough to merit injunctive relief.

On August 16, the California Republican Party filed this reply brief in the State Supreme Court in Patterson v Padilla, the lawsuit over whether the State Constitution requires that all “recognized” presidential candidates (seeking the nomination of a ballot-qualified party) appear on a presidential primary ballot.

Joel Fox, who runs Fox & Hounds Daily, a California politics web page, writes here about another consequences of the California tax returns-ballot law. If it is upheld and President Trump does not appear on the 2020 Republican presidential primary ballot, that will probably discourage Republican turnout. And that, in turn, could skew the results of the statewide ballot measures that will appear on the March 2020 ballot.

Also see this Fox & Hounds column by Tony Quinn, which ran on August 13.