The Hill News

Rick Perry's appeal to appear on the ballot Virginia's March 6 primary was denied Tuesday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, effectively exhausting legal options for the Texas governor and other Republican candidates hoping to be added to the commonwealth's ballot.

The court denied Perry's request to grant an injunction that would have prevented the state from going forward and printing ballots in a 22-page order, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch.

The ruling means that Perry - along with Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and John Huntsman, who had also failed to meet Virginia's difficult qualifying rules - will not appear on the primary, setting up a two-man race between Ron Paul and Mitt! Romney.

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