The Michigan Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former President Trump can remain on the state’s 2024 ballot.
The court rejected an appeal to kick Trump off the ballot using the insurrection clause. The Colorado Supreme Court recently ruled to ban Trump from that state’s ballot under the insurrection clause. One of Michigan’s four Democratic-nominated justices acknowledged the Colorado decision, but said the two states’ election laws differ. The group who filed the Michigan lawsuit also unsuccessfully tried to keep Trump off of Minnesota’s ballot, and is trying to keep him off Oregon’s ballot.
Trump’s critics say that he is ineligible to hold elected office because they say that he incited the riots at the U.S. Capitol in January, 2021, and they cite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. They base this argumemnt on Section Three of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which was adopted to keep former Confederates from holding office after the Civil War.
The Michigan Supreme Coirt disagreed with that argument, voting, 6-1, to decline to even hear the case. The primary in Michigan is set for February 27th.
Trump issued the following statement on his Truth Social media fedd shortly after the decision:
“The Michigan Supreme Court has strongly and rightfully denied the Desperate Democrat attempt to take the leading Candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election, me, off the ballot in the Great State of Michigan. This pathetic gambit to rig the Election has failed all across the Country, including in States that have historically leaned heavily toward the Democrats. Colorado is the only State to have fallen prey to the Scheme. That 4-3 Colorado Supreme Court decision, which they themselves stayed, thus keeping me off the ballot as we go up to the U.S. Supreme Court, is being ridiculed and mocked all over the World.”
“We have to prevent the 2024 Election from being Rigged and Stolen like they stole in 2020. Just look at the complete mess we have as a result with Crooked Joe Biden volently destroying everything in his sight, from our once-great Economy, to our once-fair Justice System. We have to save our Country from decline, and the Radical Left. Make America Great Again!”
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