Judge Hollis McGehee on Friday dismissed state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s (R) lawsuit challenging the runoff results in the Mississippi Republican primary for U.S. Senate citing that McDaniel was too late to file his complaint.
It’s the latest speed bump for McDaniel since the June 24 runoff, which Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) won.
McDaniel’s team, in response, argued that no such deadline existed in state law and that the decision the Cochran lawyers had been citing was for old elections. The law that included that deadline, McDaniel’s lawyers argued, had been updated.
McDaniel can still appeal the lawsuit to the state Supreme Court. If the Mississippi Supreme Court disagrees with McGehee’s Friday ruling then the case will go to trial.
In the immediate response to McGehee’s decision, McDaniel reportedly wanted time to decide whether he would appeal McGehee’s ruling.
McDaniel wants the weekend to mull whether to appeal dismissal to SCOMISS #mssen will have press conference Tuesday
— Geoffrey Pender (@GeoffPender) August 29, 2014
This is a travesty! All you Mississippi Tea Party folk and all true conservatives should stay home on election day to protest!
McDaniel’s just trying out for his role as the Black Knight in the “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” remake
McDaniel, as state senator, was the chair of the elections committee when they were being amended. You’d think he would understand the laws he helped make. But you would be wrong.
Not just Mississippi. You’re playing small potatoes.
This calls for a nationwide boycott of the election.
Who’s with me, Tea Partiers?
Tea Party forever!!
With the understanding that this farce is nothing but an attempt at raising McDaniel’s profile, it’s still all kinds of fun watching the guy lose in slow motion. Hope he gives us more of that good ol’ Confederate spleen at the press conference.