{"id":459,"date":"2020-07-13T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/600hemphill.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2020-07-13T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:10:01","slug":"no-mandamus-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/600hemphill.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/no-mandamus-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"No mandamus jurisdiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Texas Supreme Court declined to enter the fray about the City of Houston&#8217;s cancellation of the state Republican Party convention: <em>&#8216;[Texas Election Code] Section 1.005(10) defines \u201claw\u201d in the Election Code to mean \u201ca constitution, statute, city charter, or city ordinance.\u201d&#8217;  Thus, &#8216;duty imposed by law&#8217; in Section 273.061 is limited to a duty imposed by a constitution, statute, city charter, or city ordinance. The Party does not assert that Houston First owes it any such duty. The Party argues it has constitutional rights to hold a convention and engage in electoral activities, and that is unquestionably true. But those rights do not allow it to simply commandeer use of the Center. Houston First\u2019s only duty to allow the Party use of the Center for its Convention is under the terms of the parties\u2019 Agreement, not a constitution.&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/In-re-Republican-Party-of-Texas.pdf\">In re Republican Party of Texas<\/a>, No. 20-0525 (Tex. July 13, 2020). A<a href=\"https:\/\/600hemphill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rep-Party-dissent.pdf\"> dissent<\/a> would have taken the case given the importance of the issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court declined to enter the fray about the City of Houston&#8217;s cancellation of the state Republican Party convention: &#8216;[Texas Election Code] Section 1.005(10) defines \u201claw\u201d in the Election Code to mean \u201ca constitution, statute, city charter, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/600hemphill.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/no-mandamus-jurisdiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-mandamus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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