Craig says he plans to file an appeal

Sen. Larry E. Craig said he would file an appeal today over a judge’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his arrest in an airport bathroom sex sting.

In an interview with KTVB-TV in Boise, the Republican repeated that he would not resign from the Senate and said he would continue to work his legal options.

Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in August after he was accused of soliciting sex in a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in June. After the matter became public, Craig tried to withdraw his plea. But a judge in Minnesota refused, saying Craig’s plea “was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and . . . supported by the evidence.”