Adopted at the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee Meeting on April 12, 2025

WHEREAS, Senate Bill 799 and House Bill 855 (SB 799/HB 855) mandate that statewide political parties nominate candidates exclusively through state-run primary elections for all partisan offices, removing the right of parties to use conventions or other methods preferred by local members;

WHEREAS, The Tennessee Republican Party has a longstanding tradition of allowing county parties in all 95 counties to determine their own nomination processes, respecting local control, grassroots decision-making, and regional diversity;

WHEREAS, The fiscal note accompanying SB 799/HB 855 confirms that the legislation imposes no additional cost to the state, revealing it as a blatant act of government overreach designed not for fiscal efficiency, but to centralize control over party operations;

WHEREAS, The courts have consistently affirmed that political parties possess a constitutional right under the First Amendment to determine their own nomination procedures, and SB 799/HB 855 would infringe upon that right by mandating a one- size-fits-all process;

WHEREAS, SB 799/HB 855 includes an arbitrary and discriminatory grandfather clause that allows certain counties to retain nominating conventions based on past practice, violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by treating counties unequally;

WHEREAS, Republican voters have entrusted their elected leaders with a supermajority in the General Assembly to uphold party values and protect grassroots integrity, and this legislation represents a betrayal of that trust;

RESOLVED, That the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee, meeting in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee on April 12, 2025, strongly opposes SB 799/HB 855 and any legislative effort to strip political parties of their constitutional right to determine how their candidates are nominated;

RESOLVED, That the Tennessee Republican Party urges all Republican members of the General Assembly to vote against SB 799/HB 855 and to defend the Party's right to self-governance and freedom of association.

RESOLVED, That this resolution be distributed to the Governor of Tennessee, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Lieutenant Governor, and all Republican members of the Tennessee General Assembly.

Adopted at the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee Meeting on April 12, 2025

WHEREAS, Recent inappropriate and possibly unlawful partisan judicial activism by certain federal district judges appears intended to again sabotage the Trump and President Trump’s plan to deport illegal aliens from the United States, including various drug cartel terrorists;

WHEREAS, Such judicial activists appear to be using a ‘run-out-the clock’ strategy against the Trump Administration so as to waste precious time in removing those dangerous narco-terrorist elements from the United States; WHEREAS, Partisan judicial activism now appears to be an ongoing Democrat-political strategy to damage the Trump Administration by sabotaging the nation’s economy by creating civil unrest, including criminal acts such as those recently seen in Democrat so-called “Tesla Protests” against Tesla owners, dealers and factory personnel;

WHEREAS, Judicial activism is now routinely used and/or facilitated by Democrats, and includes judicial activism to arbitrarily, and without regarding to merit or necessity, preserve the jobs, power and seats of authority amongst an overwhelming number of federal bureaucrats; numbers that are by one DOGE estimate, around ninety- two percent of the federal workforce in D.C.;

WHEREAS, This enormous bureaucratic behemoth is currently protected by union and civil service rules that make its members believe themselves to be a permanent ruling class that cannot be disciplined or dismissed from federal employment no matter how incompetent or how merit-less or egregious their workplace behavior;

WHEREAS, This self-serving, so-called permanent bureaucratic ruling class considers itself unanswerable to the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch, and continues to expand its ranks in a malignant fashion that is contrary to the best interests of the United States of America and is counter to the desires of the overwhelming majority of American Voters who re-elected President Donald J. Trump;

WHEREAS, Recent DOGE investigations have revealed an incredible level of bureaucratic fraud, waste, abuse and outright theft of taxpayer funds at such a level that it threatens to ultimately collapse our federal government and all its social programs, including Medicare and Social Security;

WHEREAS, Judicial activism by certain District Judges appears intended to retain and protect a criminal element of narco-terrorists within America’s borders because the Far-Left contingent of the Democrat Party favors and engages with such elements for the purpose of promoting political terrorism and civil unrest so as to force Americans to accept their unworthy and meritless social and cultural objectives and to advance a woefully misguided and tyranny-prone-Far-Left contingent of the Democrat Party and to further its political objectives at all costs;

WHEREAS, Respected historical and constitutional authorities that include former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Constitutional Attorney, Mark Levin; and White House Legal Counsel, Stephen Miller; advocate historically and constitutionally valid remedies such as de-funding rogue, partisan judicial activists while also considering other constitutionally valid methods of limiting the authority of such rogue judicial activists, and,

WHEREAS, we agree that such partisan political activism by certain District Federal Judges indeed now threatens our entire Judicial System as well America’s safety and economic well-being, and that it obstructs America’s right to a federal government that is both economically efficient and effective, as well as a federal government that is transparent and honest with its citizens; and that such partisan political judicial activists should be constitutionally limited in terms of authority and scope; and

WHEREAS, the legal scope of a Federal District Judge is intended to be limited to the district in which that Judge serves, and that such a judge’s rulings should not impact and/or subject to judicial tyranny, the entire United States;

RESOLVED, That the Tennessee State Republican Party during their Executive Committee meeting on Saturday, April 12, 2025, in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee now call on the Tennessee General Assembly and Governor Bill Lee, to join the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee in asking the U.S. Congress to consider all constitutionally valid remedies, including those cited here-in, to limit the authority and/or scope of rogue, politically partisan District Federal Judges whose actual intent is not to uphold the law, but is instead intended to sabotage the Executive Branch and the Trump Administration nation-wide.