A federal appeals court has overruled a judges decision allowing the Texas Republican Party to hold an in-person convention in Houston, marking a big win for the the nations fourth-largest city in an ongoing battle with the state GOP.
In an order issued Saturday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Fridays ruling that would have permitted the Republican Party of Texas to host an in-person convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center. It came one day after Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner vowed to appeal the case.
Judge Lynn Hughes, of the Southern District of Texas, had ruled Friday that the city of Houston violated the GOPs constitutional rights by canceling the event.
Turner, a Democrat, had directed convention center operators earlier this month to cancel the Texas GOPs contract to hold an in-person convention this weekend. The mayor said he believed the three-day event could not be held safely amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Houston and much of Texas.
The party sued, alleging breach of contract, but it lost an appeal at the Texas Supreme Court on Monday.
The ruling Saturday came as Texas reported more than 10,000 new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, for the fifth consecutive day and more than 100 deaths linked to the disease for the fourth day in a row.
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