On January 4, 2012, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Gibney issued an order, letting Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Santorum intervene in the lawsuit filed last month by Rick Perry, over Virginia ballot access in presidential primaries. The judge ordered that the three candidates file a complaint today by 5 p.m. Defendants must respond to those complaints by the close of business on January 6. The hearing will be on January 13.
In other developments in the case, a former Virginia Attorney General, Jerry Kilgore, will be a witness for the presidential candidates, and is expected to testify that the Virginia ballot access requirements are not necessary for any legitimate state interest.
Gee – will there be TOTAL election law chaos before, during and after the Nov general election day ???
When will SCOTUS bring down another Bush v. Gore HAMMER on the MORON rotted to the core State regimes ???
— along with U.S.A. Dist. Attys bringing instant indictments / informations for the MORONS for subverting the Constitution and all sorts of civil rights laws ???
The worse and worse election CHAOS can NOT continue — and have the U.S.A. survive as any sort of *Democracy*.
This sounds like one reason Perry hasn’t left the race yet.
The Virginia primary is on Super Tuesday, March 6. Huntsman and Perry and likely several others will certainly have quit by then.
The intervenors can carry on the lawsuit, even if Perry drops out. For all practical purposes, all four Republicans are plaintiffs.