On June 2, the plaintiffs in Florida Decides Healthcare v Byrd filed a notice of appeal with the Eleventh Circuit. This is the lawsuit over the new Florida restrictions on the initiative process, including the ban on out-of-state circulators. The Eleventh Circuit case number is 26-11906.
On June 1, California filed this brief in Ware v Weber, e.d., 2:26cv-1643. This is the lawsuit filed by Butch Ware, Green Party candidate for California Governor, over the state’s unique law that says gubernatorial candidates must file copies of their income tax returns for the last five years. The state argues that the case is moot. That is a very weak argument. In 1969 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Moore v Ogilvie that ballot access constitutional cases are not moot just because the election is over before the case can be adjudicated.
On June 2, the Delaware Elections Commission posted new voter registration data. Here are the statewide totals for all currently qualified parties, and also all the parties that have been qualified in the state for the last few decades. Parties need 780 registrants by August 25 to place nominees on the 2026 ballot. The Delaware Green Party had 774 registrants on May 2, but now has declined to 761.
The Cowboy State Daily has this article about Shawn Johnson, the Libertarian nominee for U.S. House in Wyoming. Johnson is a former two-term city councilmember in Casper, and an attorney. The article says the Republican Party primary for this office is so fractured and so divisive, Johnson might do very well.
On June 1, the Alabama opponents of the new districts passed by the legislature this year filed this brief in Singleton v Allen, 25A1315. It says that setting aside all the legal arguments, it is literally too late for the state to hold primaries in district 1,2,6 and 7 using the legislature’s new maps. The brief is very short. It points out that no work can be done on changing the boundaries again on June 1 because June 1 is a state holiday in Alabama. Alabama celebrates Jefferson Davis’s birth on the first Monday in June, even though his actual birthday is June 3.
