Q said: [[Look for court cases from these states following the election. There will be actions aimed at restoring states' primacy over private clubs such as the DNC, since these states pay for and conduct their primaries, and use them (FL and some others) to append other issues requiring a vote.]]
True, the state primaries often have other issues on the ballot, and the states have their rights. But the political parties, when all's said and done, have the right to decide how to choose their nominees, and they should not be forced to base such choice on ever-earlier caucuses and primaries.   (Hence the Democratic Party's wise policy of giving some power to the longtime party loyals and elected representatives known as "superdelegates" instead of leaving the whole shebang up to the whims of an uninformed electorate -- uninformed by virtue of holding primaries too early and probably also by virtue of the radio and TV "pundits" having too much air time relative to that of the actual candidates.   Should the states prevail in suits against the Democratic Party for sticking to their rules, the Party perhaps should just change the rules to give even LESS weight to the results of primaries.