On November 12, a New York state trial court in Niagara County will hear the cases filed by the Working Families Party, and the Conservative Party, over whether a state commission has the authority to ban fusion. The legislature created a commission earlier this year that was given the authority to write laws on public funding of campaigns, and also on whether fusion should continue to exist. The WFP and the Conservative Party argue the state constitution does not permit the legislature to delegate its law-making powers on this matter to an unelected commission.

The Working Families case is Hurley v Public Campaign Finance & Election Commission, E169547/2019.

Foreign Policy has this article by Lee Drutman, suggesting that the United States would be better off with a multi-party system. He writes, “All else equal, modest multiparty democracies (with three to seven parties) perform better than two-party democracies. Such a party system regularizes cross-partisan compromises and coalition building. Since parties need to work together to govern, more viewpoints are likely to be considered.”

On October 22, some leaders of the Colorado Working Families Party endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination. However, the Working Families Party of Colorado did not itself endorse Sanders. This post has been amended since it was first posted.