Trial Date For McDaniel Runoff Challenge Pushed Back To Sept. 16

Special Judge Hollis McGehee speaks to attorneys during a status conference Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in the Circuit Court Courtroom of the Jones County Courthouse in Laurel, Miss., regarding the lawsuit by State Sen... Special Judge Hollis McGehee speaks to attorneys during a status conference Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in the Circuit Court Courtroom of the Jones County Courthouse in Laurel, Miss., regarding the lawsuit by State Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, to overturn results of a Republican primary for U.S. Senate. McDaniel filed the lawsuit last week, challenging his loss to six-term Sen. Thad Cochran in the June 24 GOP primary. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) MORE LESS

The start day for the trail in Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel’s (R) challenge to the results of the runoff of the Republican primary for U.S. Senate has been pushed back a day.

Judge Hollis McGehee, the judge presiding over the case, has decided to set the start date for Sept. 16. It had previously been set for Sept. 15, according to the Clarion-Ledger.

McGehee also moved the end date back from Oct. 3 to Oct. 6.

The trial is central to McDaniel’s efforts to fight the runoff results. Since the runoff, which Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) won, McDaniel has said he is actually the rightful Republican nominee for Senate and has said he should be awarded the nomination.

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  1. Motto of every other Southern State:

    “Hey–At Least We’re Not Mississippi!”

  2. Moving it back one day allows the state fairs and carnivals, crucial to the local economies, to finish without competition from this side show.

  3. Not a larger insane asylum than SC
    Not high on White Lightning like TN
    Not longer or wider in ignorance as TX
    Not still making babies like they do in AR
    Not living on a hollow as they do in KY
    Not fucking french as in LA
    Not eating red clay as in AL
    Not smoking in the Smokey Mts of NC

    After all of that, we’re not Yankees.

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