According to this story, the Illinois Supreme Court will soon decide the lawsuit Collazo v Illinois State Board of Elections. The issue is the 2024 law that eliminated the ability of qualified parties to nominate after the primary (in races in which the primary didn’t produce a party nominee).

The Illinois Supreme Court has one of the worst histories on ballot access of any court in the nation. An Illinois Supreme Court ruling kept the Harold Washington Party off the 1990 ballot, but fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed it, in Norman v Reed. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law that required newly-qualifying parties to run a full slate of candidates, but later the Seventh Circuit, a federal court, struck it down. The Illinois Supreme Court has consistently ruled against the ability of citizens to use the statewide initiative process. The Illinois Supreme Court kept Henry Wallace off the ballot for president in 1948.

On July 10, the Eleventh Circuit refused to rehear Rose v Raffensperger, the case over whether Georgia’s at-large elections for Public Service Commission violate the federal Voting Rights Act. The vote was 8-3, with one abstention. The three judges who wanted to rehear the case wrote at length, and one of the judges who didn’t want to rehear the case also wrote.

As a result, there will continue to be at-large elections for this partisan office, instead of district elections. If the lawsuit had succeeded, the state would have had five districts, each one electing a commissioner. Here is the decision.

On July 10, the Democratic National Committee said it still intends to nominate for president and vice president with a virtual roll call, instead of at the physical convention in August. The delegates will meet on July 21 to learn about the procedure, and the roll call will follow shortly afterwards, probably in a day or so. See this story.