On August 19, the Arkansas Libertarian Party filed this 20-page brief with the Eighth Circuit, asking that court not to disturb the July 2019 ruling that enjoined the new requirement for almost 27,000 signatures for a party to get on the ballot.
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On August 16, California Secretary of State filed this brief, which argues that Rocky De La Fuente’s case against the new California tax returns-ballot bill should be transferred from San Diego to Sacramento. There are five federal lawsuits pending against the new California law. De La Fuente’s case was the first, and it was filed in San Diego. The other four lawsuits were filed a few days later in Sacramento.
The 2020 Green Party national convention will be in Detroit, July 9-12, 2020.
Pierre Nantel has been a New Democratic Party member of the Canadian Parliament since 2011. On August 19 he left his old party and joined the Green Party. He will run for re-election as a Green nominee. Before being elected, he was a television news broadcaster. He represents Longueuil-Saint-Hubert, Quebec. He says that he left the New Democratic Party because that party seemed so uninterested in climate change.
On August 19, Rocky De La Fuente filed a notice of appeal in the Arizona case over the number of signatures for an independent presidential candidate. De La Fuente v Hobbs. Arizona requires approximately 37,000 signatures for 2020. No presidential candidate has complied with this requirement since 2008, and back then it was 21,759 signatures. Nevertheless, the U.S. District Court upheld it last month.