Court denies Massachusetts GOP effort to halt Kirk's Senate appointment

By GottaLaff

It was pretty much a given:

A Massachusetts court has rejected a request from the state Republican Party to put a temporary hold on Sen.-designate Paul Kirk’s (D-Mass.) swearing-in Friday, clearing the way for Democrats to have a 60th seat in the Senate. [...]

The court ruled early Friday afternoon that the appointment would proceed.

"The [Republican] Party has not shown that it has a chance to succeed on the merits and, therefore, any risk of harm to the party will not outweigh the risk of harm to the governor and the commonwealth,” Judge Thomas Connolly said, according to WCVB-TV in Boston.

Original post about the lawsuit here.