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Federal judge rules @TexasGOP can hold in-person convention in Houston, lawyers say
https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1284250859287851008Jared Woodfill, an attorney for Houston activist Steve Hotze, who helped file the lawsuit, said Judge Lynn Hughes ruled that the party can hold an in-person convention both this weekend and next weekend and that the City of Houston may not interfere with it.
According to Woodfill, Hughes concluded that the state party, which joined the lawsuit Friday, made a good-faith effort to have a virtual convention" and that Houston put the party "in an untenable position to do it [virtually] in a very short period of time.
Earlier this week, the partys State Republican Executive Committee voted to move the convention online after losing separate legal battles to proceed with an in-person gathering, which was set to take place Thursday through Saturday at Houstons George R. Brown Convention Center before Houston officials canceled it.
Federal judge rules Texas GOP convention can proceed at George R. Brown in downtown Houston
Source: Houston Chronicle
A Houston federal judge on Friday ruled that Mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston First, the citys convention agency, must allow the Texas Republican Party to proceed with an in-person convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Judge Lynn Hughes of the Southern District of Texas found that the city had infringed upon the Texas GOPs constitutional rights by canceling the convention, which initially was set to run from Thursday through Saturday before Turner ordered Houston First to nix it.
Hughes gave the party the option of using the convention center this weekend and next, according to Jared Woodfill, an attorney for Houston conservative activist Steve Hotze, who initially filed the lawsuit with a handful of other plaintiffs.
The party began its convention online Thursday but encountered technical difficulties, forcing officials to postpone the event. The party joined Hotzes lawsuit Friday.
The Texas GOPs executive committee now will decide whether to reverse course and hold the convention in person, after recently voting to hold it virtually. The committee first voted by a two-to-one margin to continue with the in-person event, before voting to hold it online after a series of legal defeats in state district court and the Texas Supreme Court.
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