Court Opinion

ID: 9710615
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:13:18.169843+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:58.408985
License: Public Domain

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARD, also dissenting: I would join in Mr. Justice Kluczynski’s dissent. I consider the majority’s holding is offensive to that in Cousins v. Wigoda, where the Supreme Court held the appellate court of Illinois erred in according primacy to State law over a national political party’s rules in determining the selection of delegates to the party’s national convention. The majority in effect approves our statute which has a Republican formula and a Democratic formula to be used in selecting candidates to national political party conventions. This contradicts the holding of Cousins v. Wigoda that State law is not to be given primacy in the determination of this question. I would hold that the statute unconstitutionally abridges political associational rights of the plaintiff and associates and interferes with the national party’s right to determine the composition of its national convention in accordance with standards set by the party, as opposed to State constructed formulae for use by political parties. Cousins v. Wigoda.