Isn’t this up to the party? It is a private entity - I don’t see how the courts have any jurisdiction over this.
“Isn’t this up to the party?”
Yes, that is what the judge ruled.
There is also a state law that binds the delegates and he ruled that that state law is unconstitutional.
Not the Party rule that binds them.
“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.