Judge sets Sept. 15 trial date for Mississippi election challenge of Chris McDaniel
August 22, 2014adminNewsComments Off on Judge sets Sept. 15 trial date for Mississippi election challenge of Chris McDaniel
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A trial is set to begin Sept. 15 for a lawsuit that seeks to undo a Republican runoff victory by Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran.
Retired Chancellor Hollis McGehee, who’s presiding over the case, filed a scheduling order Thursday in Jones County Circuit Court in Laurel. He specifies that the trial must be finished by Oct. 3. It will take place at the Jones County Courthouse.
State Sen. Chris McDaniel filed the lawsuit last week, asking a judge to either declare him the winner of the June 24 runoff or order a new election. McDaniel claims there were thousands of voting irregularities, but Cochran’s attorneys say the six-term incumbent won fairly.
Certified results show Cochran defeated the tea party-backed McDaniel by 7,667 votes.
June 24, 2014adminNewsComments Off on Racial politics churn in Mississippi’s contentious race for U.S. Senate
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Race is roiling the Republican Senate runoff in Mississippi, a state with a long history of racially divided politics where the GOP is mostly white and the Democratic Party is mostly […]
September 23, 2014adminNews, The BuzzComments Off on Around Mississippi: Leflore County judge accused of forging signatures by his family in estate squabble
The Associated Press Here are some news and notes around Mississippi: In Greenwood, family members accuse a Leflore county justice court judge of forging signatures on land records related to his dead father’s estate. The Greenwood […]
JACKSON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday postponed arguments on whether to move the trial of a white Mississippi teenager charged with intentionally using a pickup truck to run over a black man. Deryl Dedmon, 19, […]