A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday declined to intervene in the state’s decision not to remove roadkill collector Robert F Kennedy Jr from the November ballot, the Detroit Free Press reports.
District Judge Denise Page Hood wrote in an 18-page ruling that Bobby Jr can’t sue in federal court because his case had already been adjudicated in state court. “[Junior] now pleads before this court seeking a second bite at the apple, to which he is not entitled,” the judge wrote, adding that the brainwormed malformation was also too slow in filing his appeals. Hood also noted that 90 percent of the total ballots have been printed and a re-do would cost the state at least $500,000.
In related news, a Wisconsin appeals court will hear Bobby’s case to get himself removed in the Badger State, to which state Election Commission Chair Ann Jacobs wrote on Wednesday that it’s no longer merely a matter of printing, but that “by the time the appellate court rules (I would guess no earlier than Monday, September 23), thousands upon thousands of ballots will have gone out.”