On January 21, the state of New York filed this response brief in Upstate Jobs Party v Kosinski, 24-503. This is the case over New York’s law that lets individuals contribute more money to the nominees of a qualified party, than to any other candidate. The state says the unequal limits are for the purpose of avoiding corruption.
On January 23, U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour issued a Temporary Restraining Order against the federal government, to block for 14 days the new Trump Order changing the meaning of birthright citizenship. Here is the two-page order. During the next fourteen days proceedings will be held in that court do decide if the Executive Order should be enjoined.
Coughenour is a Reagan appointee.
On January 21, the Virginia Senate Privileges and Elections Committee passed SB 1009. It lets local governments use ranked choice voting for elections for their own officers. Here is the text of the bill.
On January 22, the North Carolina Supreme Court said it will not now decide the lawsuit filed by a Republican nominee for Supreme Court Justice, who is trying to set aside the election returns that show he narrowly lost. Griffin v North Carolina State Board of Elections, 320P24. The candidate, Jefferson Griffin, must put his lawsuit in the hands of the trial court, the Superior Court of Wake County.
Griffin has been trying to upset the election returns because he alleges that 70,000 voters should not have been allowed to vote because their registration records are incomplete in some way.
On January 21, the states of Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Illinois filed their own federal lawsuit, challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order on citizenship. State of Washington v Trump, w.d., 2:25cv-127. Here is the brief that asks for injunctive relief. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour, a Reagan appointee.
