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Utah County GOP guests describe U.S. Supreme Court challenge over SB 54 and party nominating power
Summary
Charles Max Wood, vice chair of the Utah County Republican Party, opened a podcast discussion on a legal challenge asking whether SB 54 allows the state to override a party’s decision on nominees.
Charles Max Wood, vice chair of the Utah County Republican Party, opened a podcast discussion on efforts to challenge how Utah’s SB 54 interacts with party nominating rules and the party’s right to associate.
Phil Lyman, a 2024 Republican candidate for governor, said he filed a case that the Utah Supreme Court declined to hear, then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court. "The question is: does a political party under the First Amendment right of association have the right to choose its candidate without interference from the legislature?" Lyman said. He described reliance on a precedent he identified as New York Board of Education v. Torres Lopez and said the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled the case for a…
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