Texas Supreme Court Rejects Bob Barr’s Request To Toss Obama, McCain From Ballot
Vince Leibowitz | Sep 24, 2008 | Comments 0
Yesterday, the Texas Supreme Court rejected Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr’s lawsuit seeking to toss Barack Obama and John McCain from the general election ballot in Texas. Barr claimed that the candidates weren’t officially named nominees by their parties prior to a statutory deadline for submitting their names for the ballot to the Texas Secretary of State.
Drew Shirley, Barr’s attorney, issued the following statement on the ruling:
Obviously, I’m disappointed for a couple of reasons. I think it’s clear that the Secretary of State broke the law by certifying the late nominations of both parties, so I’m disappointed that the petition was denied. I’m also disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear oral arguments or even issue an opinion explaining their ruling, so now we’ll never know what convoluted reasoning they used to deny the petition. To paraphrase Ben Bradlee, we may have lost, but that doesn’t mean we were wrong.
No word yet on whether or not Barr will appeal.
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