On March 1 2025 during a meeting of Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, conservative leaders, by a 22-1 margin, voted to enjoin a lawsuit which will attempt to overturn a law passed in 2020 which effectively limits voters rights to choose the method of how party nominees are chosen. This lawsuit is being filed by Jeff Adams Esquire of Staunton Virginia. The law in question, which went into effect in January of 2024, stripped political parties of their right to choose their method of nomination. It had the effect of banning party processes to nominate candidates in a general election. It also forced political parties to use open government run primaries that allow Democrats to select our nominees. This is a key civil rights issue. It follows up on the 6th District’s successful legal effort to overturn the Incumbent Protection Act.
This is an effort to protect our rights as a party and not an indictment of our elected representatives. We are proud to be represented by one of the greatest members of Congress in Rep. Ben Cline as well as numerous champions of our conservative values in the General Assembly and local government.
We believe the law in question is a violation of our civil rights and is in violation of both the US and Virginia Constitution.
John Massoud, Chairman of the 6th Congressional District Republican Committee said in the meeting the following words:
“Friends, this is not an indictment of any of our elected representatives, all of whom we support. Pretty much every Republican in the Congressional District supports Ben Cline as our Congressman, and we all believe he’s the best Congressman in the USA. We support our legislators in Richmond and appreciate the hard work they’re putting in. We also support our local elected representatives for all their hard work. We believe that the law in question, which went into effect in January of 2024, is a civil rights lawsuit in which something was stolen from us. And that is our right to select our nominees by a method which we choose, not a process which is imposed on us from Richmond”.
These words were also echoed by nearly every District Committee Member who spoke on the matter, and the vote demonstrated overwhelming support of the lawsuit.
Please call Chairman John Massoud at 703 869 7945 with any questions you may have
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i am glad someone is contesting it — albeit kind of late. RPV should have gone to court on this last year. the concern I have is finding GOP delegate candidates who now have to file petitions One needs 125 to get on the ballot for delegate and right now, the statewide candidates are struggling to get 10,000 signatures to get on the June 17 primary ballot and thus the fall ballot. when I ran in 2023 — when the law hadn’t kicked in yet — i just paid a $360 fee to get on the ballot to run for State Senate. It’s hard enough to find Republicans to run for office in Northern Va., and because the new law is murky in terms of enabling overseas and military people to participate in party canvasses, we are stuck with using the open primary. I hope the 6th District is successful in its suit.