AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The Supreme Court of Texas has dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Republican Party of Texas over the cancelling of its convention.
The City of Houston canceled the event amid a rising number of coronavirus cases in the city.
“We had hoped that the Supreme Court of Texas would recognize that the issue before it involved constitutionally protected rights flowing from our contract with the Convention Center and confirm that a contract cannot be breached for political purposes,” Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey. “We believe that Mayor Turner used his control of city-owned property to disenfranchise Republicans and attempt to deny them the opportunity to cast their votes for national delegates and electors in-person in Houston.”
According to Dickey, there will be a call for a meeting of the State Republican Executive Committee to finalize the party’s path forward with an online convention.
“In spite of the obvious politically-motivated efforts of the Mayor to disrupt our convention, we will duly elect our national delegates and the Presidential Electors for our President Donald J. Trump on time as planned,” Dickey insisted.
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