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Terry defends stand
FREDERICKSBURG — Attorney General Mary Sue Terry says she is ready to defend the constitutionality of a law enlisting Virginia’s mass meetings into a Southern regional primary effort.
State Republicans argue the law is an unconstitutional infringement of their First Amendment rights to associate for political purposes.
But Ms. Terry told the Federicksburg Free-Lance Sta r Thursday she stands by a formal opinion she issued in February, which said the law imposed too minimal a burden on the political process to face constitutional problems.
She said she would have to consult with Gov. Gerald L. Baliles about any legal strategy if the Republicans’* challenge the law in court.
The law requires all political parties in Virginia set the second Saturday in March for their city and county mass meetings, the first step to choosing delegates to national presidential nominating conventions.
It is part of a regional effort to give the Southern states more clout in choosing presidential nominees and platforms by bunching all their primaries and conventions within the same week.
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