Arkansas Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 27, against the Republican Party of Arkansas Chairman Joseph Wood and Secretary of State John Thurston.
The lawsuit claims Wood and Thurston have refused to enforce a newly adopted party rules change to close Arkansas’s Republican primaries. On Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Rogers, Arkansas, the RPA held its biennial state convention. This convention is required under the laws of this state. Pursuant to Article I, Sec 1(B), the Convention is the final authority for all party matters. Therefore, changes made at a Convention regarding the state Party Platform and RPA Rules along with a passage of a Resolution defining eligibility for service on the Rules Committee, should be made known to all Republicans across the state regarding its current party structure as well as its primary elections.
Attorneys Luther Sutter and Lucien Gillham, both of Little Rock, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on behalf of behalf of Jennifer Lancaster, chair of the Republican Party of Arkansas State Convention, and 22 other delegates to the party’s biennial convention in June.
Read the entire lawsuit here: LANCASTER-v-THURSTON
