On February 1, the Arizona Secretary of State appealed No Labels Party v Fontes, 24-563, to the Ninth Circuit. This is the case over whether No Labels has a freedom of association right to block anyone from filing in its primary for congress or partisan state office.
On February 2, the U.S. Supreme Court said that the Colorado Secretary of State’s attorneys will be permitted to participate in oral argument in the Trump ballot access case. However, the court seems to be treating the Secretary of State as an ally of the Colorado objectors to Trump’s ballot position, because the Court has now allotted 40 minutes for Trump’s attorneys, 30 minutes for the objector’s attorneys, and 10 minutes for the Colorado Secretary of State.
Also on February 2, the Court denied the request of Professor Seth Barrett Tillman to participate in the oral argument.
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.
