Marchioro v. Chaney

(dissenting) — The majority opinion denies the State Democratic Party the right to control the size and composition of its own state committee, the body charged with governing the statewide operations of the party between conventions, through the means of a charter duly adopted by the party's own convention. First, the majority holds sex is to be a criterion for membership on the committee, despite the party members' expressed will that ability — not sex — be the -relevant criterion, and despité the mandate of the people of Washington, expressed in their adoption of the equal rights amendment…