On June 12, the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion in Catoosa County Republican Party v Catoosa County Board of Elections, 24-12936. It says the Catoosa County Republican Party has standing to challenge the refusal of election officials to pay any attention to the party’s desires about who and what appears on its primary ballot. Neither the Georgia state courts, nor the U.S. District Court, had appeared to take the case seriously, but the Eleventh Circuit remanded it.
The county Republican Party wants to prevent certain individuals running for county office from appearing on its ballot, given that the party doesn’t think they are bona fide Republicans. Also the county party wants to put some ballot questions on its own primary ballot, but election officials had refused to let the party do that.
The opinion is unsigned, but the judges in the case are Robin S. Rosenbaum (an Obama appointee), Nancy Abudu (a Biden appointee), and Charles R. Wilson (a Clinton appointee).
Seeing the development of caselaw is interesting given the multiple references here to their opinion in Polelle v. Fla. Sec’y of State, 131 F.4th 1201, 1207 (11th Cir. 2025) which was written by 2 of 3 judges to this panel.
They are definitely seeing that party rights (particularly major party rights) have more rights than the state interest.
The most importance concept for readers here is that government-run primaries have the problem of manipulating the party nomination process to their detriment and heavily influencing who becomes the winner of the general election.
NOOOO extremist primaries.
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Do you know that there is NO STATE COMMITTEE of a Republican Party filed in Georgia? That has been the case in Georgia since a like-named private corporation seized the name, federal tax id, assets, and government private in 2014-2015. It was done unlawfully and selfishly in an attempt to protect personal assets. Secretary of State Brian P. Kemp was the Secretary of State who unlawfully authorized Georgia Republican Party, Inc. to replace the political party.
Don’t cheer for corporate fascists and totalitarians. That is un-American.
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Good decision.