For a challenge to statutory judicial convention system as a violation of state constitutional guarantees of direct election of judges and federal 1st/14th amendment, I seek strangely elusive precedents in the following area:

Challenges under state or federal constitution to indirect party convention selection system (for any office, not just judges) as against direct party primary system.

(NB:  convention system is embodied in state statute, not just party rules.)

Thank you very much.

Jeremy Creelan
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law