Some rube publicans are deciding they don’t wanna be pirates. One has filed suit to gain the freedom to vote his “conscience” (wut?) at the GOP conflagration oops I mean convention.
In other news, Orville Redenbacher stock again reached new highs.
A certain
CARROLL BOSTON CORRELL, JR., on behalf of himself and others similarly situated,
Plaintiff,
has filed this action in Virginia, undoubtedly having found a judge of Mexican, Muslim, gay, or female descent, thus guaranteeing yet another outpouring of whining from the Don-key.
The aforementioned pleads:
if he does not vote for Trump, he faces criminal penalties, including fines and imprisonment. That is a clear violation of Correll’s and other delegates’ speech and associational rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Indeed, the Supreme Court has rejected numerous state laws regulating party affairs, including one that similarly bound convention delegates, on precisely that basis. Correll therefore moves this Court, on behalf of himself and a putative class consisting of all other Virginia delegates to national party conventions, for relief from this unconstitutional enactment.
A North Carolina delegate has said that she faces criminal sanctions, as well:
A North Carolina delegate said the delegates in her state "are very much under direct threat from our state with a $10,000 fine," adding that she had been "threatened" by the state GOP "vice-president" over Facebook and asked about the possibility of a legal fund being established to defend them.
All of which substantiates the Golden oops I mean Orange Boy was correct when he said a revolt would be to some degree, at least, illegal. Estimates of the number of potential rebel delegates have ranged from a low of 12 to a high of 1000 (!).
My guess is that Donald’s “mexican” epithet against the San Diego judge isn’t going to help his case. The odd thing, for me, is that states are in the business of passing criminal statutes regarding the procedures of a private club. But one could argue, I suppose, that the state sponsors the primaries, so they have an interest in the outcome. I think there is some basis for the courts to invalidate the laws, but I very much doubt that they will. Of course, I am rooting for the maximum strife in Cleveland, so I hope this lawsuit gets snuffed.