On September 23, the Nevada Republican State Committee voted again to hold a caucus on February 8 to choose delegates to the national convention.  The state, over the party’s opposition, is holding a Republican presidential primary on February 6.  Even though the state party’s lawsuit to block the government-administered presidential primary did not win, the party is effectively blocking the primary from having any meaning.  The party says no presidential candidate who files for the government-administered primary will be eligible to participate in the party-administered caucus.

Three U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the 1970’s and early 1980’s make it clear that a state government may hold a presidential primary, but it is the state party that determines who the delegates are.  Thanks to PoliticalWire for this news.