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Commentary: Utah Republicans are just protecting their First Amendment rights

If Republicans choose to change how candidates are chosen, they have the ability and right to do so.

(Chris Detrick  |  The Salt Lake Tribune)   Utah Republican Party Central Committee wait to speak during the State Central Committee meeting at the Park City Library Saturday, November 4, 2017. "At its specially called state Central Committee meeting recently, almost 70 percent of elected Republican representatives from across the state stated emphatically they wanted to protect their First Amendment rights," writes Don Guymon, a member of the Utah Republican Party Constitutional Defense Committee and Executive Committee.

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Republican Party Central Committee wait to speak during the State Central Committee meeting at the Park City Library Saturday, November 4, 2017. "At its specially called state Central Committee meeting recently, almost 70 percent of elected Republican representatives from across the state stated emphatically they wanted to protect their First Amendment rights," writes Don Guymon, a member of the Utah Republican Party Constitutional Defense Committee and Executive Committee.