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Eye On Boise: Judge Tosses Closed-Primaries Case

Seventy-one dissident Republicans who sued to try to keep anyone but registered Republicans from voting in Idaho’s GOP primary have lost their case. A federal judge today tossed out the lawsuit, ruling that the dissidents lacked standing to sue. “It is for the Idaho Republican Party, and not the Court, to decide how best to govern the associational rights of its members, and Plaintiffs lack the ability to substitute their judgment for that of the Party,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Mikel Williams wrote in his decision/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. Full post and judge's decision here.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.