Taking its last-possible legal shot, the Utah Republican Party on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a popular 2014 state election law that allows candidates to qualify for the ballot through the caucus-convention system and/or by collecting signatures.
The party argues again that the law interferes with its constitutional right of association to select nominees as it chooses — and it prefers to use only the traditional caucus-convention system.
The law, SB54, was a compromise to stop a ballot initiative that seemed poised to scrap the caucus-convention system and replace it with a direct primary.