A former congressman who planned to challenge Georgia Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell for his seat this spring asked a Fulton County court Thursday to force the secretary of state to hold an election for the post.

Former U.S. Rep. John Barrow said he filed a petition for a writ of mandamus after the state called off the election for Blackwell’s seat in an apparent bid to substitute a political appointment in its place. Barrow said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s decision earlier this week to cancel the election for Blackwell’s seat at the governor’s request “breaks just about every rule in the book” and deprives Georgia voters“ of the only opportunity they’ve got under the [state] constitution to choose a person who is going to serve on their Supreme Court.”

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