The Weekly Standard reported big news that could dramatically change the dynamics of the RNC Convention next week in Cleveland:
A GOP delegate has won his lawsuit challenging a Virginia law that would have forced him to vote for Donald Trump on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention next week.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Virginia statute, which carries a sentence of up to 12 months of jailtime or a $2,500 fine or both, “is an unconstitutional burden on his First Amendment rights of free political speech and political association.”
The case was brought by Virginia delegate Carroll Boston Correll, who “pleads under oath that he ‘believes that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as President of the United States and that voting for Donald Trump’ on the first ballot at the 2016 Republican National Convention, as required by Section 545(D), ‘would therefore violate Correll’s conscience.'”
The federal court’s ruling arrived on the heels of anti-Trump delegate Kendal Unruh’s announcementthat there are enough delegates on the RNC’s Rules Committee to force the entire convention to vote on whether or not delegates should be free to vote their conscience on the first ballot in the GOP nomination.
Could this be enough for the #NeverTrump movement to strip Donald Trump of the nomination?
Stay tuned. American Action News will cover all the developments.
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