The announcement ends a fight to appear on the June 21 primary ballot after McDuffie was deemed ineligible to run.
from rival attorney general candidate Bruce V. Spiva, finding that McDuffie was not eligible to appear on the ballot because he did not meet the statutory minimum qualifications for the position.
McDuffie’s supporters have rallied to his defense ever since the board’s ruling, which determined that McDuffie — who worked as a trial attorney with the U.S. Justice Department and an assistant state’s attorney in Prince George’s County before he joined the D.C. Council — was not eligible to run for attorney general because he had not been actively engaged as an attorney during the previous 10 years that he’s been a council member.
He also pointed to an amicus brief filed by eight current and former council members, in which they argued they would not have written the statute to create the city’s independent attorney general in such a way that could prevent one of their own from running. He said the council should act to remove ambiguities from the statute.
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