On February 22, the Libertarian and Constitution Parties filed this brief in their ballot access lawsuit, Libertarian Party of South Dakota v Krebs. The issue is whether the March 29 petition deadline for new party petitions is constitutional.
The American Conservative has this article by Brian Robertson and Rob Wasinger, in defense of the National Popular Vote Plan.
Both the Democratic Party of Nebraska and the Libertarian Party of Nebraska have told the Secretary of State that independent voters should be allowed to vote in their primaries for all partisan office. See this story. The law in Nebraska already requires that all parties let independents vote in their congressional primaries, but the parties need not permit independents to vote in their presidential primary or their primary for state and local partisan office.
The Libertarian Party has a contested primary this year for U.S. House, 2nd district. The list of presidential primary candidates in all three Nebraska primaries has not yet been set, but should be by February 26.
On February 22, the voters who brought the North Carolina racial gerrymandering lawsuit against the state’s original U.S. House district boundaries filed a motion with the 3-judge U.S. District Court. It says, “The map adopted by the General Assembly (last week) has been subject to considerable criticism, and Plaintiffs share those deep concerns. Their preliminary analysis of the new plan suggests that it is no more appropriate than the version struck down by the Court.”
The voters want briefs over the constitutionality and legality of the new plan to be completed quickly, and they want a court hearing on March 11.
A trial opens on February 22 in U.S. District Court in Richmond, over Virginia’s requirement that voters at the polls show government photo-ID. See this story.
