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.

On July 24, independent candidate Daniel Kollander was put on the November 4, 2025 ballot for Town Board of Cheektowaga, by a lower state court. The Board of Elections had rejected his petition because the individual petition sheets didn’t mention the name of the town in the “Public Office” blank, although the name of the town was in two other places on the petition.

On July 22, Illinois Congressmember Michael Bost filed his brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Bost v Illinois State Board of Elections, 24-568. The issue is whether he had standing to challenge the Illinois law that postal ballots should be counted if they arrive within 14 days of the election, assuming they are postmarked by election day. The lower courts had ruled that he does’t have standing to challenge the Illinois law.

His brief makes a forceful statement that candidates always have standing to challenge election laws that affect them. The case will be argued in the fall of 2025.