Nevada’s Secretary of State is trying to persuade the legislature to pass AB 82, which moves petition deadlines, and deadlines for already-qualified convention parties to nominate, to January of the election year. The hearing in the Assembly Elections Committee is the afternoon of March 3 (Tuesday). Thanks to Janine Hansen Hawkins for this news.
On February 23, the Washington Secretary of State’s bill to clean up some legal problems with the “top-two” primary advanced. The Senate Government Operations Committee passed the bill, and sent it to the Rules committee. The bill changes the vote test for a qualified party from a group that got 5% for any statewide office at the last election, to a group that got 1% for president. It also says a candidate may “prefer” any party that is either qualified, or any party that submits a petition of 100 signatures.
On February 23, the Washington Secretary of State’s bill to clean up some legal problems with the “top-two” primary advanced. The Senate Government Operations Committee passed the bill, and sent it to the Rules committee. The bill changes the vote test for a qualified party from a group that got 5% for any statewide office at the last election, to a group that got 1% for president. It also says a candidate may “prefer” any party that is either qualified, or any party that submits a petition of 100 signatures.
On February 23, the Indiana Senate passed SCR 28, which sets up a legislative study of whether Indiana should move its presidential primary from May to an earlier month. The measure now goes to the House.
The February 24 issue of Legal Times has this interesting article by Tony Mauro, on how a pending 2nd amendment case, McDonald v Chicago, might strengthen the entire Bill of Rights, by settling that the entire Bill of Rights restricts state governments. As the article explains, the current state of the law has a piecemeal application of whether various freedoms in the Bill of Rights apply to state government or not.
