The Catoosa County, Georgia, Republican Party has been trying to win a court order that allows it to exclude candidates from its primary ballot if the party believes the candidates are not bona fide members of the party. However, on February 25, U.S. District Court Judge William M. Ray II, a Trump appointee, mostly ruled against the party. Here is the Opinion.

The judge did keep alive the party’s claim on a lesser issue. The party had wanted to place some ballot questions on its primary ballot, asking Republican voters what they thought about the party’s desire to exclude candidates from its own primary. Georgia law permits such ballot measures on party primary ballots, yet the County Board of Elections had not printed the questions on the 2024 ballot. The court order allows a trial to proceed on that issue.