On September 9, the Ninth Circuit reheard Moving Oxnard Forward v Lourdes Lopez, 21-56295. This is a lawsuit over whether the City of Oxnard contribution limits to city council candidates, $500, is so low as to be unconstitutional. The original Ninth Circuit panel had ruled against the limits. When the Ninth Circuit holds an en banc hearing, not all the Ninth Circuit judges participate, because there are so many judges, it isn’t practical. So eleven judges are chosen at random.

The rehearing last an hour. It is difficult to predict the outcome. Anyone can watch this video of the hearing.

The case is interesting to Libertarians because there is evidence that the city council imposed the limits to block Libertarian Party leader Aaron Starr from winning. But, after many tries, he did get elected to the Oxnard city council and he is currently on the council.

Here is a Florida newspaper story about Sidney J. Catts, who was elected Governor of Florida in 1916. After he lost the Democratic primary, the Prohibition Party nominated him in convention, and he won the general election.

Back in 1916, Florida general election ballots did not have party labels on the ballot.

Virginia held a special election on September 9 to fill the vacancy in the Eleventh District. Here is a link to the returns so far. Excluding the miscellaneous write-ins, the Democratic nominee has 76.27% and the Republican nominee has 23.73%. No one else was on the ballot.

In November 2024 the results in this district had been: Democratic 66.99%, Republican 33.01%.