On May 10, the Illinois Republican Party filed a lawsuit in state court to block the new law that eliminates the ability of parties to nominate candidates for state legislature after the March primary is over. Collazo v Illinois State Board of Elections, Sangamon County Circuit Court, 2024CH-000032.
The lawsuit says it violates due process to pass a bill that restricts ballot access and make it effective immediately.
CNN hopes to sponsor a debate between President Biden and former President Trump on June 27, Thursday, in Atlanta. There is a tentative agreement. If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is at 15% in the polls as of June 20, and if he can show that he is ballot-qualified in states with at least 270 electoral votes, he is also invited.
The date of this debate is far earlier than any past general election presidential debate. All the others have been in October or late September.
On May 14, the Second Circuit heard oral argument in Meadors v Erie County Board of Elections, 23-1054. This is the challenge to New York’s May petition deadline. The U.S. District Court Jagistrate had upheld it. The petition deadline had been in September or August in the entire history of ballot access laws in New York, until 2019 when the legislature moved it to May. See this Courtouse News Story.
Still no resolution to the problem of the Democratic National Convention being held after the Ohio presidential candidate filing deadline of August 7, which could possibly lead to President Biden being excluded from the Ohio General Election ballot.
Here is an analysis that ran in The Hill yesterday.
Here is a commentary on this situation published today in The Ohio Capital Journal.
On May 13, the Texas petition deadline for independent candidates, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,, submitted approximately 245,000 signatures to meet the requirement of 113,151.
