Last year President Trump issued an executive order to alter the federal postcard registration forms, so as to require applicants to attach documentary proof of citizenship. On June 24, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper, an Obama appointee, declared that order to be unconstitutional. State of California v Trump, U.S.. District Court, Massachusetts, 1:25cv-10810. The case had been filed by nineteen states. The order says that only Congress and/or the states have the authority to make such changes. Here is the Opinion.

The President’s order had already been enjoined last year, so it wasn’t in effect.

On June 23, the Washington, D.C., city council voted to fund the new law that says independent voters are free to vote in partisan primaries. The law passed in November 2024 as an initiative, but it had not been implemented for this year’s primary because the Council had not appropriated money to make the change. But now the change will go into effect, starting with the 2028 primary. See this story.

On June 11, New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan rejected the Declaration of Candidacy of Aaron Day, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate. The reason was that Day had moved within New Hampshire, and his new voter registration, reflecting his new home, had not been processed on the day Day filed his Statement of Candidacy. Day has now filed a federal lawsuit, arguing that the state cannot even force congressional candidates to be registered voters at all, because that adds to the Constitutional qualifications. Day v New Hampshire Secretary of State, 1:26cv-499.

Here is the Complaint. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Landya B. McCafferty, an Obama appointee.