Posted on 07/11/2016 2:37:52 PM PDT by Mechanicos
"For the foregoing reasons, judgment will be entered in Correll'sfavor on Counts I and II and the Commonwealth will be permanently enjoined from enforcing Va.Code§ 24.2-545(0)."
Federal Court just UNBOUND the delegates for Virgina.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3174287/Correll.pdf
(Excerpt) Read more at dl.dropboxusercontent.com ...
...and Trump upsets the establishment applecart.
Trump will still win.
Unbound doesn’t mean 100% of one state has to vote for Cruz.
Votes are for electorates. It is a States Rights issue, the Federal Judiciary has no standing in what the State Laws are...
Revolution is coming. Millions will die.
It’s called “impeachment.”
Thanks .... this is a short article I also found helpful.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/anti-trumers-earn-victory-in-va.-court/article/2596179
Yes. Note that Justice Samuel Chase was impeached by the House in 1805. But he was later acquitted by the Senate.
Samuel Chase
Yes I saw you posted that over there. Thanks.
Oh good grief.
FreeRepublic crazy time has hit again.
Traditionally and historically Electors have never been bound. They also have rarely voted for anyone other than who they were expected to support, aside from cases of no majority - and those almost entirely just to make an inconsequential point, like reversing the Presidential and Vice Presidential picks.
Electors and delegates both are selected based upon their membership and loyalty. Typically, they are picked from amongst the supporters of the candidates who won that sub-election. Where Trump won, he gets to pick Trump delegates.
With or without a law or rule, if you were a Trump supporter selected by a group of Trump supporters, would you vote for Kasich? Neither would prett much anyone else. The only issue here is that Trump bungled a few states and didn’t bother to put together a ground game to get his people on the slate. Even excluding those delegates, Trump still has a commanding lead among those delegates he did get picked.
There is a bit of play in the numbers, as the goal is to select a candidate who can win the election, not just the party’s internal favorite - but Trump’s numbers appear to be far in excess of where that matters, and even where the combination could come into play.
So far there is nothing here that I’ve read, except the courts saying the state legislature can’t mess with internal party processes...an eminently reasonable ruling.
That appears to be precisely backwards.
“Isn’t this up to the party? It is a private entity - I don’t see how the courts have any jurisdiction over this.”
I believe the ruling essentially said as much. All it said was that state law could not force the delegates to vote a certain way, but it did not speak to RNC rules. In other words, what really matters is what the rules committee — and possibly the entire 2400+ member delegation if they get a minority report out of committee — says about the issue.
My $$ says this all goes absolutely nowhere. If anyone but Trump walks out of that Convention with the nomination, the Republican party as we know it is history. And the vast majority of the delegates realize that.
The camel’s nose is now in the center of the tent.
Yep...all those Trump supporters are going to run off and support his opponent, just because they can. /s
Judges overriding the voters was the beginning of California’s slow death.
(Prop 187)
Thank you.
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>> “Is this court declaring that the past 150 years of primary selection were unconstitutional and only NOW we’re doing it right?” <<
Apparently so.
This would be a “Republican” opinion.
The RNC is a private entity. The rules of the RNC currently state all delegates are bound on the first ballot. That’s not a state law its the rules of a private political party so the VA delegates are still bound.
Steve Deace has posted this on his FB page. Feel free to flame him. I certainly feel better. :-)
Today’s style of primaries has only been around since the 1970s.
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