Rocky De La Fuente and Darcy Richardson have written this article about recent moves by Republican Party state parties in many states to limit competition to President Donald Trump in primaries and caucuses.
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Florida’s Attorney General has asked the Florida Supreme Court to invalidate the circulating initiative that sets up a top-two system for state and local partisan office. See this story.
On October 3, the leaders of Republicans in each house of the New York legislature intervened in the pending lawsuits to preserve fusion. The original cases were filed by the Working Families Party and the Conservative Party. See this story.
On October 4, the plaintiffs who are fighting Montana’s ban on out-of-state circulators for initiatives filed this 31-page brief in U.S. District Court. The case is Pierce v Stapleton, 6:18cv-63. The plaintiffs also challenge the Montana law banning paying circulators on a per-signature basis.
The Los Angeles Times has this editorial, urging California Secretary of State not to appeal the U.S. District Court decision that enjoined the state’s new presidential tax returns-ballot bill. The editorial says an appeal is a waste of public resources.
As of 4 pm California time, the state has not filed any notice of appeal. The U.S. District Court decision had been released on October 2.