Frontrunner for D.C. attorney general, ineligible

Council Member Keyan McDuffie Disqualified by D.C. Board of Elections

WASHINGTON (WDVM) — The frontrunner for lawyer basic in Washington, Kenyan McDuffie (D), was disqualified by the D.C. Board of Elections on Monday, after failing to fulfill the District’s statutory necessities.

The board’s resolution was based mostly upon a DC Code that states the District’s lawyer basic will need to have been an “actively engaged” member of the legislation group, as both a practising lawyer, choose or legislation faculty professor; and will need to have been “employed in the USA or the District of Columbia” for 5 of the previous 10 years earlier than taking workplace.

McDuffie, a council member for the District’s Ward 5 neighborhood, was campaigning to succeed D.C. Legal professional Normal Karl A. Racine (D), who just isn’t looking for a 3rd time period.

The candidacy of Kenyan McDuffie was first referred to as into query by his challenger, Bruce Spiva. A senior adviser to McDuffie’s marketing campaign, Chuck Thies, mentioned of Spiva, that he ‘is trying to win on a technicality, including that the “ruling disenfranchises Kenyan on a technicality and a technicality that won’t exist.”

Kenyan McDuffie mentioned in a statement, launched on Twitter, that he plans to attraction the board’s resolution to the D.C. Court docket of Appeals.