A U.S. District Court in Los Angeles has set various deadlines for Soltysik v Padilla, c.d. 2:15cv-7916. This is the case over California’s election law that lets some, but not all, candidates for Congress and partisan state office have party labels on the ballot. The plaintiff, a registered Socialist, was not permitted to have a label because the Socialist Party is not ballot-qualified in California.

Each side has a deadline in late summer 2020 for various filings, so the case can’t be decided in time for the 2020 primary, which is in March 2020.

On May 22, the New York legislature passed S5072. It provides that if the Chair of the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee asks New York state for a copy of the state income tax return of any New York taxpayer, then the state will comply with the request.

Governor Andrew Cuomo still hasn’t acted on the bill. New York legislative rules allow the Governor to wait until the end of the calendar year to act on any bill, so theoretically Cuomo could wait until December 31, 2019. Cuomo may not be very interested in the bill because the Chair of the U.S. House Ways & Means has said that even if the New York bill becomes law, the U.S. House would not request President Trump’s state income tax return from the state.

On the afternoon of June 13, the Democratic National Committee officially announced the names of the twenty Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for the first party-sponsored debate. See this story.

The debates occur over two evenings, June 26 and 27. No determination has been made yet on which candidates will debate on which evening. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.