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June 15, 2007

Compliance with ruling on primaries leaves judge in control

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 6/15/7 Federal District Judge W. Allen Pepper in Greenville quietly demolished Mississippi’s century-old party primary election law last Friday night, declaring it worked in one-party days, but won’t today. Pepper upheld a constitutional challenge of the law by the Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee which brought the lawsuit based on its complaint that…