West Virginia Supreme Court Keeps Don Blankenship Off Senate Ballot

[Free Vulcan]

In a bright spot for Republican Patrick Morrisey’s Senate bid, the West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the secretary of state’s decision that former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship cannot run for Senate under the Constitution Party line.

Blankenship finished third in May’s GOP Senate primary but has tried to run as a third-party candidate.

“The West Virginia Secretary of State is ordered to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that Donald L. Blankenship does not appear on the 2018 General Election Ballot for the Office of United States Senator for the State of West Virginia,” the court wrote in its order, according to The Charleston Gazette-Mail.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/west-virginia-supreme-court-keeps-don-blankenship-off-senate-ballot

[mountaineer]

It's pretty simple. There's a "sore loser" law, and Blankenship didn't like it. The court said that's too bad, Don, but it's the law.