On March 22, attorneys for Montana state government filed this brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Ravalli County Republican Central Committee v McCulloch, 15A911. The issue is whether the Republican Party of Montana has a freedom of association right to avoid the June 7, 2016 open primary. The party complains that the open primary allows Democrats to vote in the Republican primary. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy had asked for this filing, and is pondering whether to order that the June 2016 primary process be altered in some undetermined way.
it does odd, that with so many options out there to select candidates, that Republicans are stuck in the primary mode. Are they simply addicted to the tax money and therefore won’t change. Primaries are outdated, but Montana would never vote to get of them.