Newspapers that cover New Jersey are editorializing that Carl Lewis should remain on the ballot as the Democratic nominee for State Senate, 8th district, in the November 8, 2011 election. Although the Third Circuit put him on the ballot, the Republican intervenors appealed that to all the judges of the Third Circuit, and that appeal is still pending. See this Philadelphia Inquirer editorial. Here is an editorial in the Cherry Hill Courier Post.

Here is a story about the appeal, in which Law Professor Frank Askin, an expert on election law, says he expects the full Third Circuit to review the case.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Libertarian Party of New Hampshire v Gardner, 11-119, at its October 7 conference. This is the case on whether a party has a right to prevent its name from being on the ballot next to the name of a candidate that the party didn’t nominate.

The October 7 conference is not the next Supreme Court conference date. The next conference is on September 26. The September 26 conference is the conference at which the Court will wade through the hundreds of cert petitions that have been filed all summer long, while the Court has been out of session.

El Paso, Texas, will proceed with a recall of the Mayor and two members of the City Council, according to this story. Supporters of the Mayor had asked a court to rule that the recall petitions are invalid because they were gathered in a church, or that a church helped distribute the petitions. But the court permitted the petition to be submitted anyway. The signatures have not been checked yet.