Interesting New Cert Petition Challenging Second Circuit Decision Requiring Primaries (Rather than Party Conventions) for Choosing New York Trial Court Judges

This petition from both major political parties and others in New York is likely to get the attention of some Supreme Court Justices. I think this case has a pretty good chance of being granted: it raises interesting and important issues about the rights of parties to decide how to choose their nominees and the special rules, if any, that should apply to judicial elections. It also raises issues about federal courts interfering with state election rules. And it raises all of these issues outside the context of a hotly contested election.

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