Pug Ravenel, Andrea Garrett Kiessling, and the rule of law

Sometimes political chicanery and the rule of law intersect by circumstance

Many conservatives are in a dither this morning about Andrea Garrett Kiessling, a conservative Republican candidate for the state senate in West Virginia, who has been tossed from the primary ballot because she has not lived in the state for five years, as required by the West Virginia constitution.

Kiessling appealed a circuit court decision to the West…