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This article by Matt Welch was published today.
On January 26, Congressman Dean Phillips asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to put him on the Democratic presidential primary ballot. So far, only Joe Biden is on the ballot. Phillips v Wisconsin Election Commission. Wisconsin is not a state in which the parties decide for themselves whom to list on their presidential primary ballot. Instead a state commission decides. Here is Phillips’ brief.
In this interesting post on electionlawblog.org, Ned Foley proposes a system whereby the Final Five candidates are eliminated one at a time, in a system that he says would not require a constitutional amendment.
On February 1, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the new state constitutional provision relating to legislators who have too many absences applies to the 2024 election. The Republican incumbents who were told they can’t run for re-election this year had sued the Secretary of State, arguing that the measure, if read carefully, doesn’t affect the 2024 election. But the Court ruled it does affect the 2024 election. Knopp v Griffin-Valade, S070456.
Here is the decision. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.