Judge Tosses Out McDaniel Challenge To Senate Runoff Results

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By DANIEL STRAUSS Published AUGUST 29, 2014, 3:21 PM EDT

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.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/judge-hollis-mcgehee-ruling-motion-to-dismiss-thad-cochran-chris-mcdaniel

[Historic NY]

1. LOL the teapotters must be boiling.

[Blue Idaho]

2. His decision to appeal will be based solely

On his ability to con more rubes into donating to his "defense fund." If he thinks the groundswell of cash is fizzling out he will cut his losses, take the money and run.

All republicans see running for office as a get rich quick scheme. All of them.

[Xolodno]

3. Well...in a way...it is a get rich scheme.

Sadly.....

[MiniMe]

4. Dear Chris McDaniel...

You don't get to lodge a lawsuit because you don't like the results of an election. Grow up

[Zorro]

5. So the law on the books is not the law

because it's an old law. What a novel legal tactic.

[Gothmog]

6. McDaniel's challenge was so weak that it was a joke

I am glad that the challenge was dismissed