Here is an interesting story from The Christian Science Monitor stating that due to the current multistate US House redistricting brouhaha, the national Board of Directors is considering a change to its universal opposition to partisan gerrymandering.
Thanks again to that prolific purveyor of political punditry, politicalwire.com.
On August 4, the voters who supported Cornel West’s ballot position in North Carolina filed this brief in their ballot access case. Although the U.S. District Court had put Cornel West’s party on the ballot last year, the case is still alive because West and his supporters are seeking a federal court decision that the State Board of Elections last year violated the U.S. Constitution when it kept his party off the ballot even though it had enough valid signatures.
The purpose of getting a declaratory judgment in this case is to avoid the same problem in future elections. Ortiz v North Carolina State Board of Elections, e.d., 5:24cv-420.
On August 7, the Catoosa County, Georgia Republican Party filed this 28-page brief in its lawsuit to exclude candidates from its primary ballot whom the party feels are not bona fide Republicans.
The party is also fighting to win the ability to place issue questions on its own primary ballot. Catoosa County Republican Party v Catoosa County Board of Elections, n.d., 4:24cv-95.
The party had lost in U.S. District Court, but then the Eleventh Circuit sided mostly with the party on the big issues in the case, and remanded it back to the U.S. District Court. If the party wins this lawsuit, it will have a big impact on Georgia elections. The state party has already formally declared that certain leading Republican office-holders, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, are out of step with the state party.
US House of Representatives member Kevin Kiley (R-CA) proposes banning congressional redistricting before the 2030 Census results are available. Here is the latest on that.
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