Ch 10: The Blanket Primary
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Supreme Court Ruling on the Blanket Primary
The excerpts below are from the Supreme Court opinion in California Democratic Party v. Jones. In that case, the Court ruled on California’s “blanket primary,” in which all the candidates up for nomination appeared on the same ballot, regardless of party. California had passed a law in 1996 creating the blanket primary. In a 7-2 opinion, the Court found the blanket primary unconstitutional. Read the excerpts, and then answer the questions that follow.
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