The federal voting rights lawsuit over the Texas Legislature's House Bill 2504 and related items of Texas voting law, filed by the state's Green and Libertarian parties, along with smaller parties and independent voters, last summer, as discussed by me in detail here, is not supposed to go to trial UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
You read that right.
Note: This does not include the suit filed early this year in state district court out of Harris County when SoS (Same old Shit, Secretary of Shit or whatever you prefer) Ruth Hughs ignored the clear intent of Drew Springer's language and tried to charge all third party candidates, not just those who are actually nominated at their party conventions, the new filing fees. Libertarians there (Greens not a party) sued and got a temporary injunction, but that was overturned on appeal at the state's 14th Appeals Court, with trial set for February. The history of the appeals level is here. The trial court docket is here.
From what I can tell, the temporary injunction was eventually reinstated, as the likes of David Bruce Collins are running as candidates.
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