Seven weeks ago, on June 29, Better for America asked for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in Level the Playing Field v FEC, U.S. District Court, D.C., 1:15cv-1397.

Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, still hasn’t ruled on whether the amicus can be filed. By contrast, when Sam Husseini asked to file an amicus in this case, his request was denied exactly two weeks after he applied. “Better for America” is the group that hoped to recruit an independent conservative presidential candidate.

According to this story, one of the Republican candidates for presidential elector in Georgia says if he is elected to the electoral college, he probably won’t vote for Donald Trump. The story is somewhat naive to say that Georgia is one of 21 states that does not require presidential electors to vote for the nominee of the party that nominated them. Some of the other 29 states say that electors must vote for the presidential candidate they are pledged to, but those laws have no teeth. The only laws with binding effect are in North Carolina and Montana. Those states say a presidential elector who violates his or her pledge is deemed to have resigned, and to be replaced by the other electors from that state. But even those laws have no binding effect, if all the electors from such a state “disobey”. If they all violate their pledge, there would be no one to replace them.

Kansas held its primary on August 2. Incumbent member of the U.S. House Tim Huelskamp was defeated for the Republican nomination. This is only the fourth time this year that an incumbent member of Congress has been defeated in a major party primary. See this story. The other instances this year have been Republicans in North Carolina and Virginia, and a Democrat in Pennsylvania.