On June 9, U.S. District Court Judge Judith E. Levy determined that the Libertarian National Committee’s request for a Michigan injunction has procedural problems. She struck the document from the record and ordered the LNC to re-file by June 16. Here is the three-page ruling in Libertarian National Committee v Saliba, e.d., 5:23cv-11074.

The case had been filed because the Libertarian National Committee believes that trademark law can be used to adjudicate an internal dispute over who the officers of the Michigan Libertarian Party are.

In the meantime, no attorney for the Defendants has entered the case. The Defendants include four Libertarian Party nominees from the 2022 election, including the party’s gubernatorial nominee.

Thanks to Independent Political Wire for this news.

The Georgia Republican Party state convention is June 9-12. The delegates will consider a proposal to bar candidates from Republican primaries for federal and state office if the party officers don’t approve of that candidates. That is already policy in the Alabama Republican Party.
See this story.

As noted in the previous blog post, on June 7 the Connecticut legislature adjourned. Many bills failed to pass: (1) bills letting independents vote in primaries; (2) bills to replace “disobedient” presidential electors; (3) bills to use ranked choice voting in presidential primaries and in general elections; (4) a bill to ban fusion; (5) a bill for a top-two system; (6) a bill requiring qualified minor parties to follow their own bylaws; (7) a bill to treat minor party nominees equally in the public funding system; (8) a bill that would have legalized out-of-state circulators. Out-of-state circulators are permitted under a federal court ruling but the election law hasn’t been updated to show that.

The only important election law bill that passed is HJR 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to allow early voting.