Redfearn v. Delaware Republican State Committee

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves, but unfortunately does not resolve, the conflict between two constitutionally protected interests; the right of freedom of association for the achievement of desired political ends —protected by the first amendment— and the right to have one’s vote in an election for public office given equal weight with that of other voters — protected by the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment. The order appealed from, an injunction issued by a single district judge on a motion for summary judgment, adjudged that certain…