elections-clause

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A1096 Samuel Ronan, et al. v. Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-06 Application anderson-burdick-framework ballot-access elections-clause first-amendment free-speech primary-election Question not identified.
25A914 Nicole Malliotakis, et al. v. Michael Williams, et al. New York 2026-02-13 Denied Amici (2) congressional-redistricting due-process elections-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-gerrymandering Question not identified.
25-854 Adam Holley v. Benjamin M. Lepak, in His Official Capacity as Oklahoma Secretary of State, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-16 Denied Response Waived ballot-access constitutional-rights elections-clause eleventh-amendment primary-election state-action 1. Whether, under the Elections Clause, U.S. Constitution Article I § 4 Clause 1, and this Court's decision in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514…
25-704 Fulton County, Pennsylvania, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-17 Denied breach-of-contract constitutional-authority elections-clause procedural-error standing voting-machines Article I, § 4, cl. 1 , the " Elections Clause " of the United States Constitution , delegates to the states, the Time, Manner, and Place of conduct…
25-7 Dawn Keefer, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-duty elections-clause federal-elections legislative-authority state-officials Whether individual legislators have Article III standing to sue state and federal executive officials for altering the manner of federal elections in …
24-1017 Jonathan Lindsey, Michigan State Senator, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing constitutional-amendment elections-clause federal-elections legislative-power state-legislature The Elections Clause expressly requires federal election regulation by the States, namely that "[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections …
24-786 Republican National Committee, et al. v. Faith Genser, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-01-23 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-interpretation elections-clause electors-clause judicial-review legislative-power state-election-law The Elections and Electors Clauses of the U.S. Constitution vest the power to set federal election rules in the legislature of each state. Exercising …
24-568 Michael J. Bost, et al. v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-11-21 Judgment Issued Amici (29)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) article-iii-standing election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-preemption state-regulations The sole question presented here is whether Petitioners, as federal candidates, have pleaded sufficient factual allegations to show Article III standi…
23A1136 Christi Jacobsen, Montana Secretary of State v. Montana Democratic Party, et al. Montana 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete election-law elections-clause judicial-review legislative-authority state-constitution voting-rights What showing is required to show that a state court has so far exceeded the bounds of ordinary judicial review as to unconstitutionally intrude upon t…
23A912 Frank R. Difranco v. Patricia M. Fallon, Circuit Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Illinois 2024-04-11 Presumed Complete ballot-counting due-process election-integrity elections-clause judicial-election statutory-deadline Question not identified.
23A851 Thomas C. Alexander, in His Official Capacity as President of the South Carolina Senate, et al. v. The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, et al. South Carolina 2024-03-20 Denied congressional-districts elections-clause judicial-intervention legislative-authority redistricting state-supreme-court Question not identified.
23A139 Siddhanth Sharma v. Damon Circosta, Chair, North Carolina State Board of Elections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied ballot-access elections-clause felon-disqualification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-party-affiliation 1.) Does Appellee's (NC Board of Elections) extra requirements of 3 additional requisites of 1.) Being a Registered Voter 2.) Being part of a Politica…
22-620 Daniel Cox v. Maryland State Board of Elections Maryland 2023-01-06 Denied Response Waived election-law elections-clause mail-in-ballots maryland-general-assembly montgomery-county moore-v-harper representative-elections u.s-constitution united-states-constitution This case presents a question nearly identical to that of Moore v. Harper, 142 S. Ct. 2901, 213 L. Ed. 2d 1114, 90 U.S.L.W. 3403, 2022 WL 2347621 (202…
22-414 Timothy R. Bonner, et al. v. Leigh Chapman, in Her Official Capacity as Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-11-02 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-4 constitutional-interpretation election-procedure elections-clause federal-elections fourteenth-amendment mail-in-voting pennsylvania-law standing state-regulation voting-rights Does Pennsylvania's Act 77 no-excuse mail-in voting law violate Article I § 4 of the United States Constitution by allowing mail-in voting from anywhe…
22-362 Matt Huffman, President of the Ohio Senate, et al. v. Meryl Neiman, et al. Ohio 2022-10-18 GVR Relisted (2) congressional-elections congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-review ohio-supreme-court proportional-representation redistricting state-constitution state-legislature 1. Whether state courts violate the Elections Clause by enforcing state constitutional limits on a state legislature's power to regulate congressional…
21-1509 Ryan Costello v. Carol Ann Carter, et al. Pennsylvania 2022-06-01 Denied 2-usc-2a(c) congressional-redistricting constitutional-interpretation elections-clause judicial-remedies legislative-impasse partisan-gerrymandering state-court-discretion state-courts Do the Elections Clause and 2 U.S.C. § 2a(c) constrain the remedial discretion of courts when they impose congressional maps in response to a constitu…
21-1271 Timothy K. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, et al. v. Rebecca Harper, et al. North Carolina 2022-03-21 Judgment Issued Amici (74)Relisted (3) constitutional-interpretation election-regulations elections-clause legislative-power redistricting separation-of-powers state-judiciary state-legislature voting-rights Whether a State's judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the "Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives . . . prescr…
20-883 Donald J. Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response Waived absentee-voting election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection legislative-intent voter-fraud Since the 1980s, the Wisconsin Legislature has authorized absentee voting but explicitly commanded it must be "carefully regulated to prevent the pote…
20-815 Timothy King, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection michigan-election-code preliminary-injunction voter-fraud I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED THE PETITIONERS' EMERGENCY MOTION WITOUT EVEN A HEARING OR ORAL ARGUMENT FOR DECLARATORY, EMERGENCY, AND PERMA…
20-810 Mike Kelly, United States Congressman, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (11)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-law elections elections-clause first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech laches laches-doctrine standing 1. Do the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution permit Pennsylvania to rely on the laches doctrine to bar all forms of equ…
20-740 Jim Bognet, et al. v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-27 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot-deadline election-integrity elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection judicial-overreach mail-in-ballots purcell-v-gonzalez standing The Pennsylvania General Assembly established an unambiguous election- day deadline for receipt of absentee and mail -in ballots. A majority of the …
20-599 Hirsh Singh v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey New Jersey 2020-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law due-process elections-clause executive-order freedom-of-information-act mail-in-voting standing state-powers Does the New Jersey Governor's Executive Order taking over the powers of the state legislature to make election related laws and the primary election …
20-574 Jake Corman, et al. v. Pennsylvania Democratic Party, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-deadlines election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause intervention judicial-interpretation legislative-power mail-in-ballots presidential-electors Just last year, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, consistent with the authority vested in it by the United States Constitution, enacted a statute una…
20-553 Pennsylvania Voters Alliance, et al. v. Centre County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response Waived elections-clause federal-common-law federal-elections political-subdivisions private-financing private-grants social-contract standing tortious-interference 1. Whether the social contract of the Federal Elections Clause requires exclusively publicly-funded federal elections, thus prohibiting such private f…
20-542 Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-10-26 Denied Amici (9)Response WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-authority election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-election-day federal-election-statutes judicial-interpretation mail-in-ballots mail-in-voting pennsylvania-supreme-court preemption A Pennsylvania statute unambiguously provides that absentee and mail-in ballots must be received by Election Day. Brushing that requirement aside, a 4…