The association that represents Pennsylvania county election officials has sent a letter to the Governor and all state legislators, saying it is now too late to implement any change to the 2024 primary date. The law says the primary will be on April 23. Bills to move to an earlier primary date have each passed one house of the legislature, but the two bills are different and neither one seems likely to pass. See this story.
This article describes the legal arguments in Castro v Warner, s.d., 2:23cv-598, the pending West Virginia lawsuit over whether former President Donald Trump should be on the Republican presidential primary ballot in West Virginia.
The article has a picture of Castro.
On October 3, John Anthony Castro voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit Castro v McGrane, 1:23cv-393. This is Castro’s Idaho lawsuit to keep former President Donald Trump off the Idaho Republican presidential primary ballot.
Also on October 3, he dismissed his similar Maine case, Castro v Fellows, 1:23cv-335.
On September 30, John Anthony Castro, the Republican presidential candidate who has filed numerous lawsuits to keep former President Donald Trump off various Republican presidential primary ballots, filed this brief in the Eleventh Circuit in his Florida case, Castro v Trump, 23-12111.
Castro defends his standing and says he will surely be on the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary ballot. New Hampshire lets anyone on a presidential primary ballot with no petition, and the filing fee is only $1,000.
On October 9, Michigan Court of Claims Judge Robert Redford expedited two similar cases that seek to bar former President Donald Trump from appearing on the February 27, 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot. The cases are Davis v Benson, 23-000128, filed on September 15; and Free Speech for People v Benson, 23-000137, filed October 2. They are being heard together.
Judge Redford is a Michigan State Appeals Court judge, and he also is one of the judges on the Court of Claims, which is a special court that only hears lawsuits against the Michigan state government. Judge Redford ordered the state to file its brief by October 16.
One of the lawsuits, Davis v Benson, also argues that the February 27 date for the Michigan presidential primaries is not legal, because the bill that passed moving the primaries to that date had not taken effect until a date later than February 27. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the case numbers.
