On January 2, a Pennsylvania voter filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court to keep Congressman Scott Perry from appearing on the Republican primary ballot. Perry is running for re-election, and represents the Tenth District, including Harrisburg and York. The lawsuit says that Perry engaged in insurrection. Here is the Lawsuit. Thanks to Political Wire for this news.
On January 2, the Colorado Secretary of State asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Anderson v Griswold, the Trump ballot access case. The Secretary of State is ostensibly neutral on some of the issues in the case, but she is not neutral on the question of whether the Republican Party’s freedom of association rights were violated by removing Trump from the ballot. She argues that a party has no right to have an ineligible candidate placed on its primary ballot. Here is her filing.
On January 2, former President Donald Trump appealed the Secretary of State’s decision that keeps him off the Maine Republican presidential primary ballot. The case is now in the Superior Court for Kennebec County.
On January 2, the Colorado voters who sued in state court to keep Donald Trump off the Republican presidential primary ballot filed their response in the U.S. Supreme Court. See it here.
Generally, when the winners in the court below address the U.S. Supreme Court before the Court has accepted the appeal, the winners in the court below ask the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear the case. But in this instance, the winners in the court below do want the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case. They request that the Court decide by January 5 whether to take the case. And they say that if the Court takes the case, they want the Court to decide the case on or before February 11.
On December 29, U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema, a Clinton appointee, issued an opinion in Perry-Bey v Trump, e.d., 1:23cv-1165. This is a lawsuit filed by some Virginia voters to keep former President Donald Trump off all Virginia ballots. She ruled that the plaintiffs don’t have standing. Here is the opinion.
