On May 13, an Emerson Colloege poll for the California gubernatorial race was released. See it here.
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On May 13, West Virginia filed this amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Scott v McDougle, 25A1240. The West Virginia brief is opposed to Virginia’s position, and says the U.S. Supreme Court should not hear Virginia’s appeal on redistricting.
On May 12, the Alabama Secretary of State said primaries will be held for U.S. House districts 1,2,6, and 7 on Tuesday, August 11. This automatically sets the petition deadline for minor party and independent candidate petitions for those races on that same August 11 day.
Under several precedents that apply to Alabama, the state must cut the number of signatures from the normal 6,000 signatures, to 12.3% of the normal number. Thus the average number of signatures for this year’s petitions for U.S. House would be approximately 738 signatures.
Here is the Secretary of State’s announcement. It says petitions for minor party and independent candidates are due August 11 at 5 pm, but he says nothing about how many signatures will be required. Under Hall v Merrill, 212 F Supp 3d 1148, the state must reduce the number of signatures.
On May 12, Nebraska held its 2026 primaries. Cindy Burbank overwhelmingly won the U.S. Senate nomination in the Democratic primary. She has over 90% of the vote. She had promised that if she were the nominee, she would withdraw from the general election, in order to help independent candidate Dan Osborn win in the general election.
On May 12, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman, a Clinton appointee, refused to issue a Temporary Restraining Order against the new Wisconsin law that bans out-of-state circulators (except for presidential candidate petitions). He still may issue a Preliminary Injunction later. He didn’t issue a TRO because the Wisconsin primary petitioning period is in process, and he cited the Pursell Principle, in which federal courts are not supposed to order any changes too close to an election. Americans for Citizen Voting PAC v Wolfe, e.d., 2:26cv-786. Here is the ruling.