On April 25, the Institute for Free Speech filed this 14-page amicus curiae brief in Utah Republican Party v Cox, 16-4091. The case itself is over whether the Utah Republican Party must permit petitioning candidates to get on its primary ballot, or whether it should be allowed to limit its primary ballot to candidates who showed substantial support at a party meeting. The party lost the case by 2-1 on March 20, but then asked for reconsideration. The panel has asked the state to respond to the request for reconsideration, which shows the judges are taking the request seriously.
The Institute for Free Speech attacks the majority opinion for holding that an association’s interest should be determined, not by what the group’s official position is, but on what the majority imagines is the interest of the rank-and-file members of the association.
If they want to nominate by convention let them. They just shouldn’t expect the millions of dollars in political advertising that is a government sponsored primary
They aren’t opposed to having a primary; they just don’t want anyone on the primary ballot who didn’t show strength at a party endorsement meeting.
The top HACK MORONS in a HACK MORON Party are NOT independent empires regarding the LAWS in a a regime — unless that regime is a Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin type regime in the 1930s — having top killer tyrants.
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NO primaries.
PR and AppV
I know they want the government sponsored primary. What I’m saying is that if they accept taxpayer funds for their promotion then they can’t be surprised that there will be some rules. If they don’t like it don’t take the taxpayer money and nominate by convention like the majority of parties do.