The Georgia Recorder has this story about the recent Eleventh Circuit decision in the Catoosa County Republican Party lawsuit.  The decision remanded the case back to the lower court, but suggested that parties do have a Freedom of Association right to keep candidates off their primary ballot if the party believes the candidate is not a bona fide member.

The story suggests that if the Catoosa County Republican Party wins in U.S. District Court, that could enable the statewide Republican Party to keep Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger off its 2026 primary ballot, because the state convention had already passed a resolution disavowing Raffensperger.