Fed court bars candidate's lawsuit over expletive

A federal court has rejected a lawsuit filed by an independent candidate for the state Assembly in Wisconsin who wants to use a racially charged phrase to describe herself on the ballot.U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa said in the order filed Wednesday that Ieshuh Griffin's lawsuit must be dismissed because it was a habeas corpus action and those require the person bringing it to be in custody.Randa did not rule the merits of the lawsuit. Griffin is fighting a decision by the state Government Accountability Board barring her from using the phrase "NOT the 'whiteman's bitch'" to describe herself on the ballot.The judge said Griffin's claims should be brought in a civil rights lawsuit.Griffin on Thursday instead filed a motion to get Randa replaced due to "judicial disability.""He doesn't have the authority to tell me what to file or when to file," she said.

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