On October 4, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Merrill v Milligan, 21-1086. It lasted two hours. There will be many news stories about the oral argument. Here is the Reuters story, which isn’t very detailed. The issue is whether the 3-judge U.S. District Court was correct early this year when he invalidated the Alabama U.S. House districting plan under the federal Voting Rights Act. The 3-judge court had required Alabama to draw two districts with Black majorities, instead of just one. Then the U.S. Supreme Court had stayed that decision, in a 5-4 vote.
UPDATE: see this analysis by Professor Rick Hasen, posted at electionlawblog.

FURTHER UPDATE: here is the transcript.

Maryland Matters, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news source for Maryland politics and government, has this story about the Libertarian Party nominee for Governor, David Lashar.

Emily Hoeven, author at the CalMatters website, here writes about California’s partisan statewide elections. As she points out, they are stunningly predictable. Ever since top-two took system effect in 2011, Democrats have won every statewide race, generally with a big margin.