June 24 is the Illinois petition deadline for independent candidates, and for nominees of unqualified parties.  The Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties submitted petitions, as did independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The Illinois petition deadline had been in August until 1999, when it was moved to June.  Illinois has one of the earliest petition deadlines for general election presidential candidates of any state.  In 2000 a U.S. .District Court enjoined the deadline in a case filed by Ralph Nader, but no declarative relief was sought or granted.  So the June deadline continues to exist in the law.

On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Rose v Raffensperger, 23-1060, the case over elections for Georgia Public Service Commissioner.  The Eleventh Circuit had ruled in favor of the state, and the state law says the elections should be at-large.

Because of the litigation over this case, which began in 2020, this year’s elections for that office had been cancelled.  It is not clear if the state will now try to hold an at-large election for Public Service Commissioner this year.

On June 20, the Democratic National Committee formally decided to choose its presidential and vice-presidential nominees with a virtual roll-call, in advance of the national convention.  The committee still hasn’t announced the date of the virtual roll-call, but it will be later than July 21, because the credentials committee meets that day.

See this story, which erroneously claims that Ohio law requires the nomination to be made before the actual convention.  Ohio changed its law on June 2.