Legal Opinion
Washington State Republican Party v. State of Washington
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 22, 2006No. 05-35774, 05-35780PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
For the second time in three years, political parties in Washington State are challenging the constitutionality of their state’s partisan primary system, which was enacted as a result of the passage of Initiative 872 in the November 2004 state general election. In 2003, we concluded that Washington’s previous “blanket” primary system was unconstitutional because it was “materially indistinguishable from the California scheme held to violate the constitutional right of free association in Jones.” Democratic Party of Wash. v. Reed, 343 F.3d 1198, 1203 (9th Cir.2003)…
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