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Call me jaded but these sorts of suits only work against republicans. Obama built his entire career on stuff like this. But I remember when US Senator Bob Torricelli (D) in NJ was caught red handed taking bribes (and the FBI deemed him resigning from the Senate as punishment enough for his many crimes and not charging him) right before an election.

The law was crystal clear, they were too close to substitute another name. There was a deadline in black and white in the law and it had past. Torricelli could stay on it if he wanted (he did not, presumably he'd have been prosecuted like a regular person if he tried to stay a Senator) but nobody else. Yet everyone knew Torricelli could not win and the republican would be elected. So the courts in NJ stepped in and said that NJ voters deserved to have a democrat nominee who would win and they set aside that law so demential addled former Senator Frank Lautenberg could be put on at the last second. And yeah, he won.

I expect every time a dem faces a question like this that the courts will preserve him regardless of what the law says. It just is one of those immutable facts of life now.