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Posted on 10/24/2014 3:41:51 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
No news article to post-- the only article so far is in the Clarion-Ledger, which we can't post. But the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the lower court ruling that Chris McDaniel's challenge to Thad Cochran's primary win was filed too late. The Court's decision is here.
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This is why Pat Roberts can run all the pro-life, anti-0care ads he wants. I’m not voting for him. His allegiance is to the GOP, not to me.
The lesser of two evils in Ms is the Rat.
Whatever happens,I’m not voting for Cochran. McDaniel has done about I would ask him to do at this point, he has fought, it’s clear that the voters of MS will continue to be spat upon. This can’t have done anything for his life, so I feel like he did it for us, and I would ask no more of a good man.
The GOPe will reap what they’ve sown here. It may well work for them, it won’t work for the state or the nation, but I haven’t believed for a while that they care about that.
I pray that he loses.
“Although the GOPe won this battle, the CORRUPT ACTIONS they had to take grievously wounded them for the long term. They exposed their rot and their vileness and their lack of both character and a core belief in ANYTHING except personal power.”
I agree.
I wonder when Americans will learn that you cannot stop tyranny by civil means, period.
The GOP Ruling Class are the Judenrat for the MarxoFascists and we Conservatives are fodder for the camps.
Most refuse to see it. A fatal case or Normalcy Bias for what is left of the Republic.
What a shock. </sarcasm>
See http://soundpolitics.com/The%20Federal%20Crime%20of%20Election%20Fraud.pdf
The merits of McDaniel’s case were not heard. The ruling was on timing. The merits come under federal concerns since it’s a federal elective office. IOW, fraud is still fraud even if you do not meet an arbitrary date. For example, if an election were proven a year later to be fraudulent, then the timing imposed on challenges — designed to expedite the seating of newly elected officials — would be moot.
Mississippi is a RINO *machine*.
we live in a LAWLESS COUNTRY!
The substance of his case was fraud. Two of the justices on the MI Supreme basically said the substance wasn’t heard and was compelling. The federal election law is criminal because it does address fraud which McDaniel is alleging.
From a different article: http://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-supreme-court-rejects-mcdaniel-senate-primary-challenge-232954945.html
Two justices dissented, including Josiah Dennis Coleman, who called McDaniel’s charges “too substantial and material” to be constrained by the deadline and said he would have reversed the lower court’s decision.
“Today’s ruling by Mississippi’s highest court brings an end to the challenge of the primary runoff election and reconfirms the voters’ choice of Thad Cochran as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate,” according to a statement by lawyers representing the Cochran campaign.
The decision comes four months after the June 24 primary runoff that McDaniel lost to Cochran by roughly 7,700 votes.
McDaniel refused to concede, claiming that Cochran encouraged voter fraud and that thousands of ballots had been improperly cast by Democrats, mostly African-Americans, or mishandled by county election officials.
His campaign appealed to the state’s high court after a circuit court judge, determining his lawyers had taken too long to file an initial complaint with the state Republican Party, dismissed the claim last month.
The Law: Whatever you can get away with (I had a liberal actually tell me this once with a straight face.)
His campaign appealed to the state’s high court after a circuit court judge, determining
his lawyers had taken too long to file an initial complaint with the state Republican Party,
dismissed the claim last month.
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The timing is the basis of the denials by both the lower and upper courts in MS.
Fraud maybe the contention of McDaniel but that isn’t why the case was decided
against him. He’ll have to find another avenue to get fraud as the topic.
McDaniel refused to concede, claiming that Cochran encouraged voter fraud and that thousands of ballots had been improperly cast by Democrats, mostly African-Americans, or mishandled by county election officials.
.......been there done that and this is case is just a matter of WHO got to WHAT judges with WHAT kind of promises (money).
In my case, involving many millions, the meeting was on a local golf course (nothing in writing, no witnesses, attorney client privledge). Ruling at the Supreme level took over 4 years. That’s how long it took to buy the votes.
Bout that time, I ran out of lawyer money which will likely be McDaniel’s fate too.
Make no mistake, our legal “system” is as corrupt as any in the world.
Yep, but that isn’t the basis of what the courts decided. Thus he’ll have
to find a way to get around the time issue. Then maybe fraud can be addressed.
Yep, but that isn’t the basis of what the courts decided. Thus he’ll have
to find a way to get around the time issue. Then maybe fraud can be addressed.
What I’m saying is that the Fed law doesn’t care about the state law regarding time. It cares about fraud.
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