Republican Candidate Wins Election to Replace MTG in US House Special Election in Georgia

Clayton Fuller, the Republican candidate, won the Special Election in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. He will replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned during her third term in the US House of Representatives.

Fuller defeated Democratic candidate Shawn Harris by 55.9% to 44.1%. In the 2024 General Election for this seat, Marjorie Taylor Greene polled 64.4% of the vote in a two-way race, for a decline of 8.5 percentage points for Fuller in a strongly Republican congressional district.

Independence Party of Illinois Asks to Intervene in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Ballot Access Lawsuit

On Sunday, April 5, the Independence Party of Illinois asked to intervene in the pending ballot access case that had been filed in 2024 by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. while he was an independent presidential candidate. Here is the filing. The lawsuit challenges Illinois law that does not permit anyone to circulate a petition for a candidate in a primary election and also to circulate for someone else in a general election.

New Jersey is Still Enforcing Ban on Out-of-State Circulators Despite Law Having Been Declared Unconstitutional in 2021

According to this story, New Jersey state courts are still enforcing the state’s ban on out-of-state circulators. The story is about a petition challenge to a Democratic candidate for U.S. House, Sue Altman. She submitted approximately 1,000 signatures and she needed 500. She survived the challenge, but all her signatures collected by out-of-state students were invalidated.

However, a U.S. District Court declared the residency requirement for circulators to be unconstitutional in Arsenault v Way in 2021. Here is that decision. 3:16cv-01854.