On September 8, North Carolina Political Science and Economics Professor Michael C. Munger and other individuals and groups filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S.Supreme Court in Trump v V.O.S. Selections, 25-250. See it here. Munger was the 2008 Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of North Carolina, and he polled the needed 2% of the vote to give the party ongoing ballot status for the first time. He has also been a Libertarian nominee for North Carolina legislature as recently as 2022.

Trump v V.O.S. Selections is the high-profile case over whether the president can determine tariffs without an act of congress. So far the only other amicus is filed by twelve states, on the side of V.O.S. The case will be argued in the first week of November 2025. UPDATE: the Court has consolidated this case with Learning Resources v Trump, 24-1287, a case that had been filed in June 2025 in the U.S. Supreme Court on the same subject.

On September 8, the Missouri House gave tentative approval to HJR3, the bill to require constitutional initiatives to pass in all eight U.S. House districts. See this story.

As reported earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing a case on October 8 on whether candidates have standing to challenge an Illinois election law allowing mail ballots to arrive by three weeks after election day. Bost v Illinois State Board of Elections, 24-568. The American Civil Liberties Union and the national League of Women Voters have filed an amicus curiae brief on the side of the candidates, The amicus brief argues in favor of standing. Read it here.

It is notable when the ACLU and the League of Women Voters take a position in an election law case that, from a partisan viewpoint, is on the Republican side. This case should not be a partisan case. But when one sees the list of organizations that have filed amici on either side, it is clear that it become a partisan case. The Republican National Senatorial and Congressional Committees, and the federal government, have filed on the side of the plaintiffs, i.e., on the side of recognizing standing. On the other hand, the Democratic Party of Illinois, and seventeen states with Democratic Attorneys General, have filed on the other side.