The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Meadors v Erie County Board of Elections, 24-684, on April 25.
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On April 10, the Missouri House passed HB 126, which restores presidential primaries for all qualified parties. Missouri didn’t have any government-administered presidential primaries in 2024, although it had them in earlier years.
On April 8, the Georgia Libertarian Party filed this reply brief in the Eleventh Circuit in Cowen v Raffensperger, 24-13164. This is the lawsuit against the petition requirements for U.S. House, for candidates who are not members of a party that had polled 20% of the vote for President or Governor in the last election.
HB 293, which moves the even year midterm primaries from June to the second Tuesday in March, was approved in the Mississippi House and Senate on April 1 and had been sent to the Governor’s office. No action has been taken there yet. Governor Tate Reeves has until April 24 to act on the legislation. The bill would change the deadline to qualify a new party from February to January in midterm years.
Here is a link to the current bill.
Earlier this month, HB1169 failed to become law in South Dakota. It would have required initiatives that would change the state Constitution to collect the signatures of 5% of the last gubernatorial vote in each of the state’s 35 legislative districts.
HB1169 passed the SD House and Senate in March, but was vetoed by Governor Larry Rhoden on March 31. The House had passed it by a wide margin, but the Senate passed it by only a 19-15 vote in March. Consequently, the Senate vote in April to override the Governor’s veto failed, and the bill died.