On April 4, the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. campaign said it has completed its Idaho petition.
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The Seventh Circuit will hear Indiana Green Party v Morales, 23-2756, on Wednesday morning, April 10. This is the case that challenges the number of signatures needed for a statewide independent candidate or the nominee of an unqualified party. The petition is so difficult, no one has used it for statewide office since 2000, when Pat Buchanan, Reform Party nominee, did it.
Indiana is one of only four states in which Ralph Nader was never able to get on the ballot, in any of his presidential runs. The others were North Carolina, Georgia, and Oklahoma, all of which have eased presidential ballot access since 2008, the last time Nader ran.
The Seventh Circuit does not reveal which judges will be on the panel until the morning of the hearing.
No Labels did not say whether it would finish any of its ongoing petition drives, although I think one can presume that those drives have now ended.
No Labels gave up much more quickly than Americans Elect did in 2012. Americans Elect in 2012 did not decide to skip running anyone for president until May 17, 2012.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Lake v Fontes, 23-1021, on April 19. This is the case filed by two Arizona Republican candidates for statewide office in the 2022 elections. They want to stop use of certain vote-counting machines.
On March 29, four organizations filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Georgia case over Public Service Commission elections. The brief suggests that proportional representation could be used. Currently, Georgia elects all five members of the Commission in partisan, standard statewide elections. The lawsuit had been filed by groups that argued that system violates the ability of African-Americans to elect members of their choice. The Eleventh Circuit had rejected the lawsuit and had assumed that the only remedy would be creating five districts, each district electing one Commissioner.
Fairvote, RepresentUS, Project Democracy, and the Campaign Legal Center submitted the amicus, and they point out there are other alternatives to districts, such as a Single-Transferable vote, Cumulative Voting, or Limited Voting. Here is their amicus.