Supermayor Tiffany Henyard loses Thornton Township ballot lawsuit due to botched legal maneuver

Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard’s lawsuit alleging that a caucus held last month improperly named state Sen. Napoleon Harris the Democratic nominee for supervisor was thrown out by a Cook County judge.

The decision, filed Tuesday and entered Thursday morning, affirms the caucus results, meaning the only way to elect Henyard supervisor is for voters to write in her name on Thornton Township’s April 1 ballot, barring any other rulings.

Henyard last month sued the Democrats of Thornton Township party committee and Harris, in his role as party committeeman, alleging that she was unable to compete for the nomination for supervisor because she was not given the rules set by the party ahead of time.

“That evening, I was very confident that I would be victorious and given the nomination because the people really do stand with me,” Henyard said at a news conference last month. “But I was not able to display that because our voices were taken.”