All the briefs have now been filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado, in Riddle v Secretary of State. This is the case over the constitutionality of a law that says no one may run as an independent, if that individual was registered for even one day as a member of a qualified party during the year before filing.

Although a bill to ease the restriction has passed the House and the policy committee in the Senate, the legislature apparently will not advance that bill further, and instead will wait for the court decision. The decision could come at any time and is very likely to be out before the end of this month.