Foster v. Love

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the final say” on mat- ters related to federal election procedures
• noting that the Louisiana’s regulation addressed the timing of elections “quite as obviously” as the federal one
• finding pre-emption where the federal statute required congressional elections on a particular date different from that provided by state statute
• overturning Louisiana primary system whose winner was deemed elected if he received a majority of votes in light of federal law setting the date of federal general elections
• overturning Louisiana primary system whose winner was deemed elected if he received a majority of votes in light of federal law setting the date of federal general elections
• invaliding Louisiana open-primary because it provided the opportunity to fill congressional seats prior to election day

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).