On August 7, the city council of Warren, Michigan, filed this brief in Fouts v The Warren City Council, e.d., 2:23cv-11868. This is the lawsuit over how to interpret the term limits law that regulates elections for Mayor and City Council of Warren. The incumbent Mayor, James Fouts, wants to run for re-election this year but he has been kept off the ballot because of the term limits law. The Mayor argues the law is being applied retroactively even though it shouldn’t be.

The City Council argues that the Mayor’s federal lawsuit should be dismissed, because he already litigated the issue in state court. Also it argues that he filed his federal lawsuit far too late. The first round of the election is August 8, 2023.

Karen Bowen is running for re-election in November 2023, hoping to retain her job as the Harrisburg, New York Town Clerk and Tax Collector. Her petition filled out her office as “Town Clerk”, but it was invalidated because the full name of the job is “Town Clerk and Tax Collector.” Therefore she must run as a write-in candidate. See this story. Thanks to Joe Burns for the link.

On August 4, the state of New Jersey filed this brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Mazo v Way, 22-1033. this is the case that challenges the New Jersey law that restricts the content of ballot labels, for candidates running in primaries.