Court keeps GOP candidates off Va. ballot

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that three remaining Republican presidential candidates would be excluded from Virginia’s primary ballot and scolded four campaigns for attempting to “upend” the election process at the “eleventh hour.”

With the ruling, the court rejected a lawsuit brought by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum, all of whom failed to collect the 10,000 voter signatures needed to get on the ballot.