On February 7, this reply brief was filed in Meadors v Erie County Board of Elections, 23-1054. This is the lawsuit over New York’s May petition deadline for independent candidates. In 2019 the New York legislature had changed that deadline … Continue reading
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On February 6, the state chair of the Democratic Party of Minnesota filed a lawsuit in the Minnesota Supreme Court to remove the Legal Marijuana Now Party from the 2024 primary and general election ballots. Martin v Simon, A24-0216. Here … Continue reading
After losses in Arkansas in 2022 and Ohio in 2023, the Republican Party is at it again, this time in Missouri, in an attempt to make citizen initiatives to amend the State Constitution harder to pass. Here is a detailed … Continue reading
COLORADO DECISION SHOWS HOW THE RIGHT TO VOTE FREELY HAS DECLINED SINCE THE 18th CENTURY On December 19, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump cannot appear on the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot. Anderson v Griswold, … Continue reading
One of the amici filed in Trump v Anderson, 23-719, the Colorado ballot access case, says that the U.S. Supreme Court ought to rule that state election officials have no authority to decide whether a candidate is an insurrectionist. The … Continue reading