Does the First Amendment Permit a State to Specify and Define the Composition of State Courts by Reference to the Political Party of the Judges?

Severability The state argues that the bare-majority requirement is severable from the major-party requirement and that the Court can therefore strike the major-party requirement (if it must) without also striking the bare-majority requirement. Moreover, the state claims that the bare-majority requirement can stand alone, independent of the major-party requirement, as it stood for 54 years before the state adopted the major-party requirement, and as it currently stands for the state's Family Court and Court of Common Pleas. [Extracted from the article]