On September 22, the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear the part of Pierce v Jacobsen, 21-35173, that left intact Montana’s ban on paying initiative circulators on a per-signature basis. The original decision had said the ban might be unconstitutional, but that the plaintiffs hadn’t filed enough evidence to make that case.
That decision had also struck down the ban on out-of-state circulators, and Montana did not ask for a rehearing on that part of the case.
On September 20, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene filed this short brief in the Eleventh Circuit, asking the court not to be influenced by the decision of a New Mexico state trial court that removed a county commissioner from office due to his actions on January 6, 2021.
Greene is seeking to have the Eleventh Circuit rule that she should not have been forced to undergo an administrative process handled by the Secretary of State, to determine if the Fourteenth Amendment’s “insurrection” clause applies to her. Even though the state administrative ruling ruled that she is eligible, she still wants a federal ruling that she should not have been required to go through the process.
On September 20, the First Circuit refused to rehear We the People PAC v Bellows, 21-1149. This is the case that enjoined Maine’s ban on out-of-state circulators.
On September 21, the Georgia Libertarian Party filed this brief in Graham v Carr, n.d., 1:22cv-3613. This is the lawsuit against the Georgia law that lets individuals give an unlimited amount of campaign contributions to Republican and Democratic nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, but which limits contributions to other candidates for those offices to $7,600.
The case will be heard on September 30, Friday, at 1:30 p.m. in Atlanta.
An OH Predictative Insights Poll for the Arizona U.S. Senate race shows these results: Democratic 47%, Republican 35%, Libertarian 6%, undecided 12%. See here.
