The Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. campaign has documented specific threats to his security by at least 34 individuals, and has renewed its request for Secret Service protection. See this story.
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Today this essay by Rob Richie was published urging Ranked Choice Voting to be employed at the Democratic National Convention should Joe Biden remove himself from consideration for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. He also writes that RCV should be used in polls and primaries and for internal Congressional elections in future years.
The State Democracy Research Initiative at University of Wisconsin Law School will be hosting its annual review of democracy litigation in the U.S. and state supreme courts, at 3:00-4:15 CT today. It features Pam Karlan, Derek Muller, Gowri Ramachandran, and Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, with Miriam Seifter moderating. The event will be livestreamed, and you can register here.
On July 11, he RFK, Jr./Shanahan Campaign handed in its petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State.
UPDATE: see this story.
Presuming that the Campaign has enough valid signatures (I don’t know how many signatures were turned in, but I would be shocked if they didn’t have enough valid signatures of Colorado registered voters), this would mean that Kennedy/Shanahan would be on the ballot as an Independent ticket, and not on the Libertarian Party line in that state, because Colorado does not allow candidate fusion.
According to this story, the Illinois Supreme Court will soon decide the lawsuit Collazo v Illinois State Board of Elections. The issue is the 2024 law that eliminated the ability of qualified parties to nominate after the primary (in races in which the primary didn’t produce a party nominee).
The Illinois Supreme Court has one of the worst histories on ballot access of any court in the nation. An Illinois Supreme Court ruling kept the Harold Washington Party off the 1990 ballot, but fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed it, in Norman v Reed. The Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law that required newly-qualifying parties to run a full slate of candidates, but later the Seventh Circuit, a federal court, struck it down. The Illinois Supreme Court has consistently ruled against the ability of citizens to use the statewide initiative process. The Illinois Supreme Court kept Henry Wallace off the ballot for president in 1948.