On August 23, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court expedited Applewhite v Pennsylvania, 71 MAP 2012. This is the case over whether the new government photo-ID law violates the Pennsylvania Constitution. All briefs will be in by September 7.
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According to this story, a lower state court judge in South Carolina has ordered the Republican Party to hold a supplemental primary in one legislative district, and a second such lawsuit is pending. The story mentions the federal law that requires overseas absentee ballots to be mailed at least 45 days before any primary or any election, but fails to note that the law only pertains to federal office.
Several other states and territories are holding September primaries, including Delaware, Guam, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and New York (but the New York primary is for state and local office, not Congress). UPDATE: here is a much more detailed article.
On August 18, the ballot-qualified Constitution Party of Oregon nominated Will Christensen for President. See here. Christensen will apparently not be on the ballot in any other state. He had formed the Independent American Party some time ago but it did not carry out any successful petition drives. The Independent American Parties of Nevada and New Mexico are not associated with Christensen’s party.
Christensen campaigns by listing his “dream cabinet”, which he hopes would include persons such as Congressman Allen West of Florida for Secretary of Defense, and Congressman Ron Paul for Secretary of the Treasury. However, there is no indication that these individuals are even aware of their status. Christensen attempted to obtain the presidential nomination of the American Independent Party of California earlier this month, but did not succeed. His vice-presidential running mate is Kenneth Gibbs.
The Republican National Convention will convene on August 27, but then will immediately recess until Tuesday, August 28. The presidential nomination will be on Tuesday. See this story. The reason for the delay is the possibility that tropical storm Isaac might interfere with the convention. Thanks to Chet Chin for the link.
The independent presidential petitions for Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson both succeeded. They will both be listed as “independent”. They will join the presidential nominees of the four ballot-qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and Constitution.
Idaho requires 1,000 valid signatures for independent presidential candidates, due in August. Americans Elect never qualified in Idaho; even though the signatures were collected, they were never submitted.