A federal judge in Texas will hear oral arguments on Thursday in True the Vote’s lawsuit seeking Mississippi election from the U.S. Senate primary runoff records, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
True the Vote, a Tea Party-aligned group that has made voter fraud its primary issue, sued the Mississippi secretary of State and the state Republican Party.
State Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) and his supporters claim that Sen. Thad Cochran won the primary election with crossover votes from African-Americans and Democrats. The McDaniel campaign is currently reviewing election materials in a search for irregularities, but has yet to file a formal challenge to the election results.
A Mississippi district judge last week expressed skepticism over True the Vote’s lawsuit against Mississippi officials and ordered the group to clarify why they filed the lawsuit in the northern district of Mississippi, instead of the southern district.
Throw it so far out of court that it can never come back.
One point from the Clarion-Ledger article, before people start asking:
The Texas Judge was assigned by the 5th Circuit to hear the case because McDaniel complained that the federal judges in Mississippi are there on recommendation of Cochran. Smart move. This way, when the suit is dismissed, McDaniel can’t appeal on the grounds of judicial bias.
Thanks, that clarifies a great many things that should have been clear in this article.
Now, can somebody translate the opening sentence of this article in to English, because as it stands, it’s a fine example of frontier gibberish.
Somewhere a noun is wondering how it got left behind…
Where’s Jeff Davis when you need him?
This ain’t going nowhere, but I do want it to continue to split the Mississippi GOP up until November!