Source: Ballot Access News

On June 11, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Keyes v Obama, 11-1225, a case filed on January 20, 2009, over whether President Obama meets the constitutional qualifications to be President. The plaintiffs included the American Independent Party’s candidates for President and Vice-President in 2008. The Ninth Circuit had ruled that none of the plaintiffs have standing. The Ninth Circuit said that if the lawsuit had been Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

On June 21, National Public Radio aired a twelve-minute interview with Gary Johnson. Read the transcript at this link.

Source: Politico

There hasn’t been a single poll out of Colorado this year that’s shown Mitt Romney ahead of Barack Obama. Tuesday’s Public Policy Polling poll is no exception: Obama leads Romney in a head-to-head matchup by 49 percent to 42 percent.

But add libertarian Gary Johnson to the mix and the numbers are slightly different: Obama leads 47-39, with 7 percent going to Johnson, according to the PPP poll. Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

Source: Ballot Access News

On June 21, the Alabama Constitution, Green, and Libertarian Parties filed their reply brief in Stein v Chapman, which challenges Alabama ballot access procedures for putting the presidential nominee of an unqualified party on the November ballot. The case is Stein v Chapman, 2:12-cv-42.

Source: Ballot Access News

Bruce McPherson, a former Republican Secretary of State of California, recently changed his registration from “Republican” to “independent.” See this story. He is running this year for Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, a non-partisan post. He will be in a run-off in November against a registered Democrat, but party registration has no official bearing in California elections for county and city office, and no party labels appear on the ballot. Read more »

Source: Ballot Access News

The Tennessee Green Party and the Tennessee Constitution Party have filed this brief in the Sixth Circuit, in the ballot access case that those parties won in U.S. District Court in February 2012. Tennessee is trying to persuade the Sixth Circuit to reverse the U.S. District Court.

Ballot access cases filed by minor parties, relating directly or indirectly to whether certain Read more »

Source: Libertarian Party (LP.org)

Below is a partial listing of web sites and publications that picked up the Libertarian Party’s press release opposing Rand Paul’s endorsement of Mitt Romney.

News of the LP’s opposition stimulated a sizable bump in traffic, inquiries and donations to both the Libertarian Party and the Gary Johnson for President campaign.

Huffington Post: Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

Chuck Baldwin’s latest is really two columns in one. The first half discusses his disappointment with Rand Paul over the Romney endorsement. In the second half he makes four endorsements of his own – his son Timothy Baldwin, Jerry O’Neill, Charles Key and Steve Stockman:

Given the choices for President that the two major parties have given us over the last Read more »

Source: Independent Political Report

Former Governor Jesse Ventura continues series of endorsements of Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson while promoting his new book DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government.

An abcnews.go.com blog titled: “Jesse Ventura: A Surfer’s Road Trip to Gary Johnson” posted earlier today included the following ABC News/Yahoo News “Top Line: Politics Read more »