The US Supreme Court denied certiorari on Monday in the Utah Republican Party’s appeal arguing that a 2014 election law unconstitutionally interfered with the party’s right to choose how it selected party nominees for candidacy.

The law in question, SB 54, allowed candidates to get their names on the ballot through either the traditional caucus-convention system or by collecting signatures. The Utah Republican Party (URP) challenged two provisions, saying the law violated the party’s right to freedom of association guaranteed under the First Amendment. Prior to the passage of SB54, URP selected its candidates for primary elections exclusively through its state nominating convention and preferred to keep that process.

The US District Court in Utah balanced the URP’s First Amendment right of association against the State’s interest in managing and regulating elections and rejected the URP’s claims. The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed.