GOP Sues Over Virginia Law Allowing Dems to Select Its Candidates

GOP Sues Over Virginia Law Allowing Dems To Select Its Candidates

By Joe Thomas, The Daily Signal | April 14, 2025 Virginia’s new “convention ban” outlaws the ability of political parties to choose their candidates through their own conventions and instead virtually requires them to use taxpayer-funded primary elections where voters from the opposing party can interfere in the candidate selection process. Now, a local Republican Party is challenging the law as an unconstitutional violation of its First Amendme…

GOP Sues Over Virginia Law Allowing Dems to Select Its Candidates

Virginia’s new “convention ban” outlaws the ability of political parties to choose their candidates through their own conventions and instead virtually requires them to use taxpayer-funded primary elections where voters from the opposing party can interfere in the candidate selection process. Now, a local Republican Party is challenging the law as an unconstitutional violation of its First Amendment right to free association. The Republican Part…