It seemed like Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel had finally called it quits after the Mississippi Supreme Court on Friday rejected his challenge to the results of the runoff between McDaniel and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).
But now, one of McDaniel’s lawyers is floating the possibility of filing a federal challenge to the state’s highest court’s ruling.
“State statutes allow the challenge to go forward even after the general election,” McDaniel lawyer Mitch Tyner told OneNewsNow, a conservative news site affiliated with the American Family Association. “And we simply have to have a special election should the challenge be successful.”
It seems that McDaniel’s supporters aren’t quite done yet either. The Mississippi politics blog Y’all Politics also flagged a story from the Clarion-Ledger quoting an exhaustive letter by Mississippi Tea Party Chairwoman Laura Van Overschelde ranting about how the Mississippi Supreme Court embarrassed itself. Here’s a snippet of Overschelde’s response:
When more widely DISCOVERED and PROVABLE evidence clearly shows that money was generously distributed to buy votes as in Amanda Shook’s harvest of more than fifty thousand dollars in cash for “walk-around” money, seven thousand dollars to Chief Election Officer, SOS Delbert Hosemann and ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS in cash distributed to Hinds County GOP Chairman and Hinds County Election Officer Pete Perry for his Get Out the Vote efforts, buy-offs of “Reverend” Ronnie Crudup from his PAC run out of his New Horizon Church for race-baiting ads on black radio stations, flyers widely distributed with $15 cash PROMISES FOR VOTES that are out-and-out lies, when all these facts are issued as pubic record, but denied by the Ms Supreme Court to be heard, then the respect for that body disintegrates like a 50 ton lead wrecking ball against the edifice that is supposed to be the RULE of LAW.
McDaniel, in response, also posted on his Facebook that “This is not my last fight. It’s just the beginning! But I’m going to need your help! The people can save this republic.”
