Has New Hampshire's 1977 state law..........

[MODU]

Has New Hampshire's 1977 state law requiring that their state primary be the first in the nation ever been challenged in court?  Searching online, I have not found anything.  I'm sure there must have been at least one challenge over it.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Has New Hampshire's 1977 state law requiring that their state primary be the first in the nation ever been challenged in court?  Searching online, I have not found anything.  I'm sure there must have been at least one challenge over it.

What is it violating, exactly?  It doesn't require other states to set their dates after New Hampshire's, it moves New Hampshire's date based on the actions of other states.

[MODU]

I'm not saying it is necessarily violating anything.  I'm just curious if any other state or organization has challenged the law.  For example, New Hampshire's law says it must be the first state in the nation to hold a primary by at least seven days.  What if California passed a similar law?  Who would be the state that actually goes first?  On what grounds would New Hampshire trump California, or vice versa?  I just don't see how one state declaring themselves as being more "special" from all other states (by a state law) without it being challenged by another state or organization.

[Bacon King]

Now, I don't know much about law, but if a state with more minorities (Florida?) attempted, and failed to move its primary ahead of New Hampshire's, then there could be racial grounds to get it overturned, maybe?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Now, I don't know much about law, but if a state with more minorities (Florida?) attempted, and failed to move its primary ahead of New Hampshire's, then there could be racial grounds to get it overturned, maybe?

The Voting Rights Act doesn't cover that sort of thing.

[CPT MikeyMike]

At the rate it's going, New Hampshire will need to hold their "first in the nation" primary this November.