On May 25, the New Jersey Secretary of State told the U.S. Supreme Court that she does not intend to respond to the cert petition filed in Mazo v Way, 22-1033. Of course if the Court asks for a response later, she will respond.
Two more amici on the side of the candidates who brought the lawsuit were filed on May 25. Here is the brief of Michael D. Byrne, a New Jersey Republican official.
Here is the brief of four New Jersey law professors, also on the side of the candidates.
On May 25, the Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression (FIRE) filed this amicus in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Mazo v Way, 22-1033. This is the case over the New Jersey law that permits ballot slogans for primary candidates, but limits the content of the slogans.
On May 24, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 7050, an omnibus election law bill. Among other things, it repeals the “resign-to-run” law as applied to presidential candidates. “Resign-to-Run” laws exist in just a few states, and they require an elected office-holder to resign in the middle of his or her term, if he or she has run for another office and fails to be elected to the new office.
Without SB 7050, Governor DeSantis would be forced to resign as Governor on January 20, 2025, whether he had been elected to the presidency or not.
According to this article, there are two announced candidates for the Libertarian gubernatorial nomination in North Carolina in 2024. Michael Ross had announced in March 2023, and now Shannon Bray has just announced.
The North Carolina Libertarian Party had a contested U.S. Senate primary in 2014, and contested presidential primaries in 2016 and 2020, and a contested gubernatorial primary in 2000. It currently has 48,914 registered voters.
Law Professor Michael Dimino of Widener University has filed an interesting amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, in Mazo v Way, 22-1033. This is the case over New Jersey’s law that permits some words on primary ballots but not others. Professor Dimino has original ideas about the method that courts have been using to adjudicate election law cases over the last 40 years. Read the second half if his amicus here.
