The decision comes after lawyers for McDuffie, the elections board and fellow attorney general candidate Bruce V. Spiva, who brought the challenge, defended their positions in front of three appellate judges Wednesday morning. McDuffie and the elections board had urged the court to make a ruling before Friday, when the board is scheduled to conduct a lottery to determine the order of candidates on the ballot.in favor of a bid for attorney general.
“Council members draft and analyze laws — that is part of the definition of what a lawyer does,” Weiss said. “Those who are not lawyers have to hire lawyers to help them do that. In this case, he did it himself.” “Allowing an individual to serve as Attorney General simply because they are an attorney and work in a nonlawyer capacity for the District, as a school nurse or IT expert, for instance, hardly seems to serve the aims of adding an experiential requirement to the minimum qualifications for the office,” the summary read.Spiva’s lawyer, Ted Howard, offered a similar argument Wednesday when he asked the judges to affirm the election board’s ruling. While McDuffie is employed by the D.C.
How embarrassing
DC saves itself from national embarrassment here. Now we just have to figure out how to stop Incompetent Muriel Bowser and Jersey John Falcicchio from continuing to make fools of all us
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