Court Opinion

ID: 9862826
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 02:15:29.259737+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:35:40.663839
License: Public Domain

BIERY, District Judge,
concurring:
Because the summary judgment standard of review favors the non-movant and because the various opinions and phrases in Morse can, and have been, used by both sides to support their position, I concur with the letter of the law result and analysis.
Clearly, political parties can devise delegate selection processes so long as a level playing field is provided for all who choose to vote. There are no allegations here of intimidation, poll taxes or literacy tests, the historical evils which made the Voting Rights Act necessary.
Though this Court has no ability to address issues other than whether Section 5 applies to a political party’s delegate allocation formula, and as this matter proceeds further through the Executive branch and judicial levels, clarification of Morse, Northwest Austin, and Executive branch regulations would give guidance to lower courts and political parties in situations where party rules are neutral but the failure to vote produces a delegate allocation shortfall to the detriment of groups who choose not to exercise the right protected by the Voting Rights Act.