BREAKING NEWS: Grassroots Idaho GOP’ers file suit in Federal Court

This news release just in from former Idaho State Senate Majority Leader Rod Beck:

(Links to the filed suit are below)

Grassroots GOP file suit to protect 1st Amendment right to free association by requiring party registration for Republican primaries

Contact:  Rod Beck (20 8) 376-9797

(BOISE)  July 11, 2007 – 71 members of the Idaho Republican Party, including a number of members of the Idaho Republican Party State Central Committee and Executive Committee filed suit in the U. S. Federal Court in Boise, Idaho to require the State of Idaho and its Chief Election Officer, Ben Ysursa, Idaho Secretary of State, to honor the Rule adopted by the Idaho Republican Party on June 2, 2007. 

Idahoans are still entitled to the basic protections and rights offered by the U.S. Constitution 220 years ago, including the right of association under the First Amendment. It is our intent to ask the court to restore those rights so that Idaho Republicans may stand together and pick their own nominees for political office, just as Idaho Democrats are allowed to stand together and pick their nominee for U.S. president.

The complete documentation including the Complaint and other corresponding documents can be found on file with the U.S Federal Court in Boise, Idaho as Beck et al V. Ysursa Case number: 1:07-cv-229.

Here are the links to the Grassroots Idaho GOP Federal suit:

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