On June 12, the Eleventh Circuit issued an order in Jackson v Jones, 26-10854. The case concerns Georgia’s campaign finance contribution limits. The law allows incumbent Governors and Lieutenant Governors to accept unlimited campaign contributions, an advantage that other candidates who run against them do not have. The U.S. District Court had enjoined the law, and the Eleventh Circuit agreed. The vote was 2-1. The dissent agreed that the law is unconstitutional, but felt the lawsuit is flawed procedurally because the plaintiff sued his opponent instead of suing the state.

The decision is by Judge Britt Grant, a Trunp appointee, and is supported by Judge Adalberto Jordan, a Clinton appointee. The dissent is by Judge William Pryor, a Bush Jr. appointee.

On June 18, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued an order of League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v Trump, 1:26cv-11549. It says that the voting rights groups may proceed to seek an injunction against the Presidential Executive Order that tells the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a list of approved voters. Then, the intent of the Executive Order is to provide that the U.S. Postal Service may not deliver a postal ballot to anyone who is not on the list. An earlier decision had said the case is not ripe, but now it is ripe, as applied to coming elections this year.

Rosenberg, Texas, held a non-partisan run-off for City Council, district 3, on June 13. Libertarian Party member Scott Robert Peterson won the run-off by three votes, 247-244.

Rosenberg has a population of 38,282 and is in Fort Bend County, in the part of Texas that once elected Ron Paul to Congress. See this story from Independent Political Report.