goals through the equal protection of women at the national convention [did not] impermissibly limit Bachur’s (and the candidates’) participation in the primary process.” Id. at 842. The court expressly noted that the purpose of the rule was to “broaden public participation in party affairs,” id. at 843, and that, in any event, it was not fashioning any sort of controlling principle: “We do not foreclose the possibility of a different result with respect to a different restriction in a different case,” id. at 841. As these cases and others make clear, the First Amendment protects a political party’s right to determine the structure and content of its own association. See, e.g., Eu v. San Francisco County Democratic Cent. Comm., 489 U.S. 214, 216, 109 S.Ct. 1013, 103 L.Ed.2d 271 (1989) (<HOLDING>); Tashjian v. Republican Party of Connecticut,
holding grandparent visitation statute serves compelling state interest in maintaining grandparentgrandchild relationship where grandparents had raised child for period of time but agreeing with trial court that something more than childs best interest must be established to serve compelling state interest holding that the government interest in preventing crime is compelling recognizing the compelling interest in highway safety holding that a state may not prohibit parties from endorsing candidates in primary election or dictate the partys organization and composition except as necessary to serve a compelling state interest holding that such classifications are permissible only when suitably tailored to serve a compelling state interest