Georgia’s Supreme Court is rejecting an appeal from a county Republican Party that tried to keep four candidates from running on the local GOP ballot. The court has voted 9-0 on Tuesday to dismiss the appeal from the Catoosa County Republican Party, ruling the party moved too slowly to overturn a lower court ruling.
FILE - The Nathan Deal Judicial Center, home of Georgia ’s Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, is seen on May, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. ATLANTA — Georgia ’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a county Republican Party that tried to keep four candidates from running on the GOP ballot because party officials viewed them as ideologically impure.
“Elections matter. For this reason, parties wanting a court to throw out the results of an election after it has occurred must clear significant hurdles,” Peterson wrote. “And for decades, our precedent has made crystal clear that the first such hurdle is for the parties seeking to undo an election to have done everything within their power to have their claims decided before the election occurred.
A superior court judge in March ordered the four candidates placed on the ballot by county officials after the party balked, even though the judge ordered the sheriff to escort the candidates to the party’s office and threatened party officers with $1,000 fines if they failed to comply.
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