Here is a story from North Carolina Public Radio.
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Legal scholar Richard Pildes, at the Electionlawblog, here discusses a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing public opinion toward the Democratic Party us at its lowest point since 1990.
U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney will hear Peace & Freedom Party v Weber on Friday, August 22, at 9 a.m. The courthouse is at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, between Larkin and Polk Streets, in San Francisco. The courtroom is on the 19th floor. The hearing is in courtroom seven. This is the minor party lawsuit against the California top-two system. The nearest BART station is Civic Center.
It would be very desirable to have a big audience. Arrive early in case it takes time to go through the metal detector that all federal courthouses have.
On July 25, U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin, an Obama appointee, again enjoined President Trump’s birthright citizenship order. State of New Jersey v Trump, 1:25cv-10139, District of Massachusetts. He had done so previously on February 13. He heard the case again because on June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court in another birthright case had said U.S. District Court judges can’t normally issue nationwide injunctions. However, the U.S. Supreme Court said they can if the plaintiffs are states.
Because this case has many state governments as plaintiffs, it was not surprising that Judge Sorokin again enjoined the presidential order.
Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the British Labour Party, has created a new party. The tentative name is “Your Party”. See this story.