[Mechanicos]

Long Opinion Blocking the State from binding delegates to vote for the winner of the State.

[Innovative]

Are they insane?!

[tomkat]

.. it's who counts the votes.

[King Moonracer]

What was the point of having a primary then? Both political parties need to be outlawed.

[alancarp]

Would this also apply to the D-Rats?

[Innovative]

Votes by people do not matter — according to this ruling, which invalidates the votes of millions.

[Political Junkie Too]

Is this court declaring that the past 150 years of primary selection were unconstitutional and only NOW we're doing it right?

-PJ

[Thibodeaux]

absent credentials they can’t be omitted to the floor

absent agreement to be bound, no credentials

[MeganC]

I’ll vote with a ballot or a bullet.

These people are saying my ballot doesn’t count.

Bad choice.

[chris37]

I suspect that 2016 is not going to end well for America.

[Cboldt]

-- Long Opinion Blocking the State from binding delegates to vote for the winner of the State. --

Popcorn time. I wonder (and could figure it out if I decided to take the time) what this changes, if anything. So what if the state can't enforce the law? The issue is how the party handles the delegates, not how the state handles the delegates.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Tar, feathers, pitchforks and nooses for the judges!

The voters votes were just overridden by a robed traitor!

[Repeal 16-17]

We are quickly heading toward Civil War II, which is long overdue. The People are being told by the courts and other parts of all levels of government, along with the major parties, that their votes don’t mean jack shit. The People are getting angrier and angrier. The Republican National Convention will be a bloodbath if the nomination is stolen from Trump.

[Whenifhow]

article and all comments

Federal Court just UNBOUND the delegates for Virgina.

[Mechanicos]

A large part of the problem is the RNC changed rule 16 in 2014 removing almost all of the rules preventing the delegates from voting for anybody other then who they were bound too.

https://ballotpedia.org/Rule_16_and_its_impact_on_the_2016_Republican_National_Convention

[fuzzylogic]

Isn’t this up to the party? It is a private entity - I don’t see how the courts have any jurisdiction over this.

[Enchante]

Judicial usurpation and tyrant!!

These bastards are determined to rule the country from the judicial bench.

[Political Junkie Too]

What this ruling implies is not that delegates should be unbound to vote as they feel; it means that delegates are unnecessary and that the state popular vote should stand on its own merits.

Do away with delegates voting for the nomination if the majority has been reached prior to the convention. The delegates are irrelevant.

-PJ

[apillar]

It’s my understanding that under current convention rules that delegates are “deemed” to have voted for the candidate that won their state regardless of how they actually vote or even vote at all. Virginia just had a second layer of protection that barred delegates from voting for another candidate or abstaining. This ruling might strike down that state protection but it has no control over how the party counts or does not count the votes...

[NTHockey]

Like father, like son.

http://law.justia.com/cases/north-carolina/court-of-appeals/1989/8811dc973-1.html

Here’s his law firm:

http://www.correllfirm.com/

[Rusty0604]

I thought that the political parties make their own rules.