Here is the Black Friday oped in The Miami Herald.
Thanks to Rick Hasen at electionlawblog.org for posting this.
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This decision upholds the US House map drawn by the state legislature in 2021 after the 2020 Census.
Here is the Order from the Supreme Court of New Mexico.
On November 28, the Arizona Green Party submitted its petition for party status. It had approximately 63,000 signatures. The requirement is 34,116. Assuming the petition is valid, the party will be on the Arizona ballot for 2024 and 2026. In Arizona, when a party submits a petition, it gets the next two elections. And as a “new” party, it is very easy for it to nominate candidates in its primary. The petition requirement is one-tenth of 1% of the number of registered voters in the district, and a write-in candidate in the primary of a “new” party only needs one write-in vote to get the nomination, assuming he or she outpolls everyone else. This liberal write-in policy is due to a winning lawsuit filed by the Socialist Workers Party in Arizona back in 1980.
The Libertarian Party of Arizona is not a “new” party, so it has very onerous requirements in order to nominate candidates in its own primary.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has rejected the wording of a proposed initiative that would protect abortion rights through Week 18 of a pregnancy.
Here is a story on this matter. In the story, there is a link to his seven page opinion.
Here is a story on the lawsuit brought by John Anthony Castro. The case is Castro v Amore, 1:23cv-405. U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, an Obama appointee, said that the First Circuit has already decided the issue in Castro’s New Hampshire case, which Castro lost on standing grounds. Rhode Island and New Hampshire are both in the First Circuit.