On May 15, the government of Utah filed this 28-page brief, explaining why the Tenth Circuit should not rehear Utah Republican Party v Cox, 16-4091. The Tenth Circuit had asked the Utah government to respond to the request for rehearing.
The issue is whether the Utah Republican Party has a freedom of association right to limit its primary only to candidates who showed substantial support at a party endorsements meeting. The Tenth Circuit had ruled against the party by a 2-1 vote earlier this year.
The state’s brief says toward the end that freedom of association for groups in general is stronger than freedom of association for political parties.
For lawyers —
ALL (as in top 2 primary States) or SOME (as in most States) PUBLIC Electors nominate PUBLIC candidates for PUBLIC offices according to PUBLIC LAWS.
STOP the worse and worse perversions of the 1st Amdt —
the oligarch gangsters in political parties are NOT independent empires with dictatorship control over ANY part of such PUBLIC LAWS.
Note that the Utah Democratic Party is a Plaintiff-Intervenor, siding with the Utah Republican Party. Regardless of their differences, Republican & Democratic parties always seem to be united in (1) keeping other parties off the ballot and (2)not wanting any state control over them.
The United Coalition ran multiple candidates in 1992 and Google doesn’t want anyone to know so they bought Dejanews, changed the name to Google Groups and deleted the evidence.
The United Coalition has been using advanced parliamentary proceedure under PPR since 1995 and accessed free speech by vying for elective offices since 1986 (mayor of Camel Vs Clint Eastwood).
http://usparliament.org/how-google-got-its-name.php
If state parties truly want to have full control over their nomination process, they can collect petition signatures to get on the ballot just like most 3rd parties have to. Accepting the huge marketing expenditure by the state in the form of primaries and automatic ballot access comes with some strings attached.