On May 30, the Democratic National Committee asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in National Republican Senatorial Committee v Federal Election Commission, 24-621. This is the case in which the Republican Party is hoping to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down limits on how much political parties can spend on their own nominees (assuming the party and the candidate are allowed to coordinate).

The case so far is unusual, because the FEC has told the court that it won’t defend the federal limits. So the Democratic Party, which supports the limits, wants to be part of the case. Here is the Democratic Party’s filing.

Also on May 30, the Republican Party filed this reply brief in the case.

On May 26, Nevada Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas) introduced AB 597. It lets independent voters vote in partisan primaries, including the presidential primaries. Here is a news story about the bill. Although the Nevada legislature is only in session for one more week, the rules let the Speaker introduce bills that don’t need to worry about normal legislative deadlines. However, Nevada has a Republican Governor, and he is likely to veto the bill if it passes.

Three books published recently on the subject of the 2024 presidential election have become best-sellers, but only one of them mentions the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. independent candidacy. “Fight; Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House” by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes says this about Kennedy: “On August 23, the day after the Democratic convention ended, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent bid for the presidency. Many of his Democratic-leaning supporters had already lined up behind Harris, meaning that his third-party candidacy could derail Trump. Though he registered in the lowto mid single digits of most multi-candidate surveys, he was in a position to play spoiler. Kennedy, son of the slain former attorney general, senator, ande presidential candidate, had built a following through an unorthodox coalition that included vaccine skeptics. Trump had long pursued Kennedy’s endorsement, and his delivery promised to give him new voters.”

Another book, “Original Sin”, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, does not mentioned Kennedy’s independent run, except to quote one sentence spoken by President Joe Biden saying that “Kennedy had announced for the Democratic nomination and had fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent.”

A third book, “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History”, by Chris Whipple, does not mention the Kennedy independent candidacy. That book was reviewed in the May 1 2025 Ballot Access News print edition.