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 22, U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin asked the plaintiffs in the birthright citizenship case to file a brief by January 24, giving their view as to whether their case, State of New Jersey v Trump, is really closely related to another case that had been filed a few hours later on the same subject. That case is Doe v Trump, 1:25cv-10135. That case had been randomly assigned to Judge Sorokin. Then, a few hours later, when the New Jersey case was filed, the plaintiffs in that case aid that their case is closely related to the Doe case, and therefore Judge Sorokin should be on that case also. But Judge Sorokin is not persuaded that the two cases should be linked. If, after reading the New Jersey brief on that point, he decides that the two cases are not related, the New Jersey case will go through the random procedure of choosing a judge. Of course, it is then conceivable that the random process would end up picking Judge Sorokin anyway.

Reason Magazine has this interview with national Libertarian Party chair Angela McArdle, titled, “What Role Did the Libertarian Party Play in Freeing Ross Ulbricht?”. It is approximately 20 minutes long. McArdle explains the history of her work on this subject, which began in 2023. She mentions that the Trump campaign was accutely aware that the Libertarian Party had polled 1,865,724 votes for President in 2020