John Hagelin, presidential candidate of the Natural Law Party in 1992, 1996 and 2000, has announced that he is creating a new university, Maharishi Central University. Here is the webpage. The school will be in Kansas.
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On August 21, Arizona moved its presidential primary from February 26 to February 5. Arizona election law gives the Governor authority to set the date, and Governor Janet Napolitano signed a proclamation to make that change.
California businessman Tom Steyer, a Democrat, has filed paperwork to launch an initiative campaign to place the National Popular Vote Plan before California voters. That proposal, if it qualifies, would compete with the Republican plan to elect one elector from each U.S. House district. See here for more about the Steyer plan.
The two-day trial in Yes on Term Limits v Savage concluded on August 21. The case, in federal court in Oklahoma City, concerns Oklahoma’s ban on out-of-state petition circulators. Federal judge Tim Leonard asked that each side submit post-trial briefs, due September 4. He indicated he will rule by mid-September.
On August 20, the New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn ruled in favor of the Fulani wing of the New York Independence Party, and against the party’s statewide officers. The case is Conroy v State Committee of Independence Party, no. 700025-07. The issue is whether the state committee of the Independence Party could deprive some duly constituted county units of the party from controlling who runs in the party’s primary. The state party had passed a bylaw saying that upstate counties could continue to enjoy that right, but that the New York city units of the party could not. The court ruled that the state party bylaw conflicts with the state election code. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for this news.