Va. delegate files suit to avoid voting for Trump

[The Straight Story]

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of Virginia's delegates to the Republican National Convention has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to avoid voting for presumptive nominee Donald Trump at the party convention next month.

The delegate, Carroll Correll Jr. of Winchester, Virginia, argues in the suit that being forced to vote against his conscience is a violation of his constitutional rights. Correll says he will not vote for Trump because he believes the billionaire businessman is unfit to serve as president.


http://foxbaltimore.com/news/election/va-delegate-files-suit-to-avoid-voting-for-trump

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

1. This strikes me as pretty baseless . . .

Just don't go to the convention. Nobody can force him to go.

[elleng]

2. NOT a federal issue,

PARTIES are nowhere in the Constitution; in fact, founders didn't WANT them to be part of the process.

Seems that Virginia's messed up: 'state law imposes criminal penalties on delegates who don't vote on the first ballot for the winner of the state's Republican and Democratic primaries.'

[irisblue]

3. Correll knew what the rules were when he ran for the position

of delegate, small sympathy pal

[runaway hero]

4. Some people should not be in politics.