On March 13, President Donald Trump had asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of lower court injunctions in birthright citizenship cases. On April 17, the U.S. Supreme Court said it won’t decide that until after it hears oral arguments on Thursday, May 15. All three pending cases will be combined for that hearing. They are Trump v Casa, 24A884; Trump v Washington, 24A885; and Trump v New Jersey, 24A886. The first case originated in Maryland. Each side will have one hour.

There are already over a dozen amicus curiae briefs in these cases, with more likely. They are on both sides.

The write-in vote totals for presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state, but who weren’t on in Rhode Island, from the November 2024 election, are: Peter Sonski 138; Cornel West 98; Siva Ayyadurai 12; Joseph Kishore 2; Randall Terry 2; Vermin Supreme 2.

Generally the Rhode Island election authorities release such results on their own, but months after the election. In this instance the election officials still have not released them. They were obtained by a Freedom of Information request by Desmond Silveira.

On April 15, Allison Riggs, the winner of the North Carolina November 2024 State Supreme Court judicial race (according to official election returns), appealed to the Fourth Circuit for a stay of the U.S. District Court order that permits further judgment of thousands of the ballots. Griffin v Riggs and North Carolina State Board of Elections, 25-1397 and 25-1398.

The issue is whether the State Supreme Court violated the U.S. Constitution last week when it invalidated some overseas and miliatry absentee ballots and put others under a legal cloud.