The 6th circuit will hear Kurita v The State Primary Board of the Tennessee Democratic Party on March 24, 2010. This is the fascinating case on whether a political party that chooses its nominees by primary is free to set aside the results and declare the person who lost the primary to be the party’s true nominee. The lower court had ruled that the Democratic Party can do that, if it wishes.
The primary was in 2008, and involved a race for State Senate. Rosalind Kurita, the incumbent, was running for re-election, and she won her primary. But the party certified her opponent, even though he had fewer votes. The party said that Kurita only won because some Republicans voted in the party’s open primary. Tennessee does not have registration by party.
Mindless idiocy in TN.
A BLATANT subversion of the Republican Form of Government clause in Art. IV, Sec. 4 and the Equal Protection Clause in 14th Amdt, Sec. 1.
Having a SUBGROUP of all PUBLIC electors ignoring the PUBLIC results in a PUBLIC primary election for the nomination of PUBLIC candidates for a PUBLIC office.
Sorry – the party hack gangs are NOT independent empires from outer space.
Allegedly this AIN’T a tyranny [YET].