According to New Jersey Globe story dated September 26, the New Jersey Republican state central committee has tentatively decided to choose delegates to the national convention by a caucus instead of the June presidential primary.
The story says the most likely date for the caucus would be March 8, with April 15 as an alternative. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the news.
On September 26, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected Alabama’s request for a stay in Allen v Caster, 23A231. This is the case over U.S. House district boundaries. The legislature had refused to pass a plan providing for two distrricts with a majority Black majority, so the 3-judge U.S. District Court had then rejected the state’s districts and had said it would draw its own plan.
Alabama went all-out to get a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. Alabama obtained amicus curiae briefs on its side from the six Republican members of the U.S. House from Alabama, as well as from the national Repubklican Party, but to no avail.
On September 25, a Missouri state trial court invalidated the Secretary of State’s proposed description of several possible initiatives concerning reproductive rights and wrote his own descriptions. James v Ashcroft, Cole County Circuit Court, 23AC-cc03167. These descriptions appear on the initiative petition, so now the proponents can start to circulate whichever initiative they desire.
Here is the ruling. Thanks to Ken Bush for this news.
Newsweek has this article about Minnesota Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips and his thoughts about perhaps seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Phillips is 54 and was elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2020 and 2022.
The article makes frequent reference to minor party and independent candidates and parties who will be in the 2024 general election.
John Anthony Castro, a Texan and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has filed lawsuits in 17 states seeking to keep former President Donald Trump off presidential primary ballots. All are in federal court except the New Hampshire case.
In order of the lawsuits filing date, they are in these states: (1) Florida; (2) New Hampshire; (3) Arizona; (4) Maine; (5) Oklahoma; (6) Pennsylvania; (7) Idaho; (8) Kansas; (9) Nevada; (10) South Carolina; (11) West Virginia; (12) North Carolina; (13) New Mexico; (14) Montana; (15) Massachusetts; (16) Utah; (17) Connecticut.
His Florida lawsuit has already lost on standing grounds. Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in a single sentence that he lacks standing, but she didn’t say why.
Other plaintiffs have filed similar lawsuits in California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Virginia. The Florida one has already lost because the plaintiffs are voters and they were ruled to lack standing.
