This June 22 press release by the Iowa Libertarian Party says the party will sue to regain its ballot position for Governor and U.S. House in the next few days.
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On June 22, Daniel J. Sullivan sued the Alaska Division of Elections to obtain a place on the August 18 primary ballot. He wants to run for U.S. Senator, but the Division of Elections blocked him because the Department felt he lacks “good faith”. Sullivan v Elections Division, Superior Court, Anchorage 3rd district, 3AN-26-07485 CI. The lawsuit depends on the argument that states cannot add to the qualifications to run for Congress.
This Los Angeles Times article says that Abel Maldonado, one of the leading forces for California’s top-two system back in 2009, now favors returning to a traditional system in which parties have nominees. But he favors a provision that says independent voters can vote in any party’s primary.
In 2009, the California legislature put the top-two measure on the ballot because Maldonado, then a State Senator, said he would vote for the budget if the legislature passed a bill to put top-two on the ballot. He had tremendous power at the time, because California was suffering a two-month old delay in passing the budget. The Constitution at that time required a two-thirds vote in each house, and Republican legislators wouldn’t vote for the budget, and they had just enough votes to stop it. When Maldonado agreed to vote for the budget, the budget passed.
On June 22, former Georgia Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said she has left the Republican Party. See this story.
On June 22, U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, ruled that President Trump’s modified list of eligible voters for the entire country violates several federal laws. League of Women Voters v U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court for D.C., 1:25cv-3501. The ruling says that some states have used the list to remove voters whom they believed were ineligible, but those voters were eligible because the federal database has errors. Here is the 75-page ruling.
TAhe ruling says that the federal laws that prohibit the list are the Social Security Act, the Privacy Act, and the Administrative Procedures Act.