Here is the list of candidates for the special election in North Carolina’s U.S. House Ninth District. There are one Democrat, one Libertarian, one Green, and ten Republicans.
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The Daily Beast here notes that Howard Schultz has not campaigned anywhere for two weeks. The reporter interviewed some of his campaign associates who pooh-pooh the idea that he is losing interest in being an independent presidential candidate. But the article also speculates that Joe Biden’s entrance into the Democratic race, and his lead in the polls for the Democratic nomination, may motivate Schultz not to run. Thanks to Political Wire for the link.
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It is likely that a U.S. District Court Judge will hear Libertarian Party of Arkansas v Thurston, e.d., 4:19cv-214, on June 4, Tuesday. This is the case that challenges the number of signatures needed for a newly-qualifying party in Arkansas, 3% of the last gubernatorial vote. The law was changed earlier this year from 10,000 to 26,745 signatures, even though Arkansas laws similar to the new law had been struck down in 1996 and again in 2006.
On May 7, the national Democratic Party filed its final brief in U.S. District Court in Jacobson v Detzner, n.d., 4:18cv-262. It is 29 pages. This is the case over whether the Constitution forbids a state from giving one party the top line on the general election ballot if it won the last gubernatorial election.