On July 1, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed HB 4488. It moves the petition deadline for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, from June to May. It also shrinks the petitioning period from 90 days to 60 days.
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The Democratic Party appears likely to formally nominate candidates for president and vice-president on Sunday, July 21. There would be no physical meeting. All the delegates were vote using an electronic meeting. See this story.
The physical convention in Chicago in August would thus be deprived of much of its meaning.
All four statewide minor party and independent petitions have been challenged in Illinois. They include the petitions filed by independent candidate Robert F. kennedy, Jr and the petitions filed by the Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties.
It is likely that the Kennedy petition will survive the challenge, but that the others won’t. Assuming the Libertarian Party is not on the ballot, 2024 will be the first presidential election in which the Libertarian Party presidential nominee wasn’t on in Illinois, since 1972.
John Rust, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Indiana this year, but who was kept off the primary ballot, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal. Rust v Morales, 23-1369. Here is his cert petition.
He was kept off the primary ballot because of a new law that said no one could be on a primary ballot who had not voted in that same party’s primary in previous years. He had won in the state trial court, but then the Indiana Supreme Court had reversed.
See this story about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s idea for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.