On July 24, the Catoosa County, Georgia, Republican Party filed its third amended Complaint in Catoosa County Republican Party v Catoosa County Board of Elections, n.d, 4:24cv-95.  This is the case filed in 2024 to block certain candidates from the Republican primary ballot.  The party county officers believe the candidates, who were running for county office, were not bona fide Republicans.

The county Republican Party’s earlier court filings were inadequate, and the party has been trying to re-write its Complaint to keep the case viable.  The case is now two years old.

Major parties in Alabama and Tennessee have a well-established right to keep candidates out of their primaries if the parties believe the candidates are not bona fide members of the party.  But there is no such tradition in Georgia, and if the praty were to win its lawsuit, that would upend elections in Georgia.