On June 10, the Nevada Democratic Party filed a lawsuit in state court against the Secretary of State and the Green Party, alleging that the Secretary of State should not have approved the Green Party’s petition because it doesn’t have enough valid signatures.  Nevada State Democratic Party v Nevada Green Party, first  judicial district court, 24OC-00107.

However, when the Democratic Party filed the lawsuit, it did not have the complete list of petition signers.  The Secretary of State had only given the Democratic Party a partial list of the signers.

The Libertarian Party of New Mexico, which is on the ballot but which is not affiliated with the national Libertarian Party, was going to decide on a presidential nominee on June 12, but it has postponed that decision until July.

on Wednesday, June 12, all sixteen full-time judges of the Sixth Circuit heard arguments in National Republican Senatorial Committee v Federal Election Commission, 24-3051.  The issue is the McCain-Feingold law that limits how much money parties can spend on their own nominees, in federal elections.  The U.S. Supreme Court had upheld that law in the past, as applied to Instances when the parties directly coordinate with their own nominees.   But the vote was 5-4.  The Republican Party’s Senatorial campaign committee filed a new lawsuit in 2022, hoping that eventually the case will reach the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court will modify or reverse its earlier ruling.

The case was before all full-time judges of the Sixth Circuit, because the case was filed in Ohio and the McCain-Feingold law says challenges to the law will be heard first in a court of appeals, with all judges participating.  These en banc hearings are rare, because they require so much judicial time and effort.

Here is a story about the hearing.