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.

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.

On September 23, the Nevada Republican State Committee voted again to hold a caucus on February 8 to choose delegates to the national convention.  The state, over the party’s opposition, is holding a Republican presidential primary on February 6.  Even though the state party’s lawsuit to block the government-administered presidential primary did not win, the party is effectively blocking the primary from having any meaning.  The party says no presidential candidate who files for the government-administered primary will be eligible to participate in the party-administered caucus.

Three U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the 1970’s and early 1980’s make it clear that a state government may hold a presidential primary, but it is the state party that determines who the delegates are.  Thanks to PoliticalWire for this news.