The North Carolina legislature will convene at 1 p.m. on Monday, August 28, to continue working on redistricting.  Afterwards, it is hoped that the legislature will work on other bills, including the ballot access bill that has passed both houses, but still needs action from its conference committee because the two versions in each house differ.

The bill to redraw State House districts is HB 927.  It hasn’t passed either House but will received a vote in the House on Monday, August 28.  The bill to redraw State Senate districts is SB 691.  It passed the Senate on Friday, August 25, by 27-16.

Here is a link to legislative webpage that has details about redistricting.

This article by Axios founder Mike Allen says that Governor John Kasich of Ohio, a Republican, and Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado, a Democrat, could conceivably be an independent ticket in 2020 for president and vice-president.

Axios is a new on-line news source.  Allen was formerly Politico’s chief White House correspondent.

It would be ironic if Kasich were to become an independent candidate, because no public official has done more to harm ballot access in the last three years than he has.  His attorneys in 2014 spent approximately $700,000 to keep the Ohio Libertarian candidate for Governor off the Libertarian primary ballot.  They succeeded, and established an Ohio precedent that candidates can be kept off the ballot if their circulators fail to list their employers on the petition forms, even though that had not been policy before 2014.  Thanks to Political Wire for the link.

On August 22, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued this opinion, explaining why it kept Cheri Honkala, the Green Party nominee, off the ballot in the special legislative election held March 21, 2017.  Green Party of Pennsylvania v Department of State, 11 MAP 2017.

Four justices signed the majority opinion.  Justice Debra Todd didn’t sign the majority opinion, but she concurred in the result.  Two justices dissented.  Here is the dissent.  Both dissenters are Democrats.

Cheri Honkala had filed her nomination certificate one day late, but received misinformation, and sued, arguing estoppel.