Brian Doyle, a candidate for U.S. House in this year’s Democratic primary, is still maintaining his federal lawsuit against the South Carolina Democratic Party. Doyle is an ex-felon. Originally, the party refused to let him file to run in its primary. He then sued the party. The case is called Doyle v South Carolina Democratic Party, 3:10cv-203.

Then the party relented and let him file to be on its primary ballot, but the party continued to refuse to list him on its web page, in the section that lists Democrats running for Congress. Judge Henry Floyd asked the party to respond in writing why it was not listing Doyle. Now the party has listed Doyle, and provided contact information for him, on its web page. But the party still refuses to list Doyle’s picture (it does show a picture of the other congressional candidates) and it still doesn’t mention Doyle’s web page. So the dispute continues.

The U.S. Supreme Court held a conference on Friday, April 23. One of the cases considered was Simmons v Galvin, 09-797, the case from Massachusetts on whether the Voting Rights Act applies to the question of whether felons and/or ex-felons may register to vote. The Court did not decide whether to hear this case or not, and will consider that question again at the April 30 conference.

If the Court takes the case, it will be the first time it has taken a case on ex-felon or felon voting rights since 1985.

Political Vanguard, a California blog by Tom Del Beccaro, has this column pointing out the logical inconsistencies, and the errors, in recent California newspaper editorials endorsing Proposition 14, the “top-two” measure.