GOP Presidential candidate Rick Perry isn't taking his rejection from the Virginia primary lying down. The Texas governor has filed a federal lawsuit in a U.S. District court to get on the ballot in the Old Dominion state.

Virginia has some of the toughest ballot restrictions in the country, and Perry is challenging the constitutionality of what his campaign calls such a "restrictive" primary process.

To qualify for the ballot, candidates must get 10 thousand signatures, 400 from each of the 11 Congressional districts, a task Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan calls "unrealistic" because only 119,034 Virginians voted in the 2008 Republican primary.

Only other two Republican candidates, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, have qualified for the Virginia primary.

"Virginia ballot access rules are among the most onerous and are particularly problematic in a multi-candidate election. We believe the Virginia provisions unconstitutionally restrict the rights of candidates and voters by severely restricting access to the ballot, and we hope to have those provisions overturned or modified to provide greater ballot access to Virginia voters and the candidates seeking to earn their support," claims Sullivan...