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Michigan Supreme Court rejects attempt to ban Trump from 2024 ballot
by Mabinty Quarshie, National Politics Correspondent
December 27, 2023 08:47 AM

Former President Donald Trump will remain on Michigan's primary ballot after the state's Supreme Court rejected an attempt to use the 14th Amendment's ban against insurrectionists from taking office.

The news comes after Colorado's Supreme Court removed Trump from the primary ballot earlier this month, citing his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/michigan-supreme-court-rejects-ban-trump-2024-ballot
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Re: Michigan Supreme Court rejects attempt to ban Trump from 2024 ballot
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2023, 05:09:03 pm »
To be clear, this decision is based only on the fact that this is a primary election in which the courts have no jurisdiction to prevent parties from nominating a candidate.  It does not stand for the proposition that Trump didn't engage in an insurrection, or that he cannot be barred from the general election ballot.

Trump actually is very fortunate that the Colorado court did what it did, because it gives him a chance to challenge directly in the Supreme Court the merits of the insurrection argument comparatively early in the election cycle.
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Re: Michigan Supreme Court rejects attempt to ban Trump from 2024 ballot
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2023, 06:46:08 pm »
To be clear, this decision is based only on the fact that this is a primary election in which the courts have no jurisdiction to prevent parties from nominating a candidate.  It does not stand for the proposition that Trump didn't engage in an insurrection, or that he cannot be barred from the general election ballot.

Trump actually is very fortunate that the Colorado court did what it did, because it gives him a chance to challenge directly in the Supreme Court the merits of the insurrection argument comparatively early in the election cycle.

Saw the decison was 3-0 (unanimous) per another article.

I'll still say the CO justices stepped in it, and I hope SCOTUS embarasses the hell out of them.
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Re: Michigan Supreme Court rejects attempt to ban Trump from 2024 ballot
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2023, 06:49:33 pm »
Saw the decison was 3-0 (unanimous) per another article.

I'll still say the CO justices stepped in it, and I hope SCOTUS embarasses the hell out of them.
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Re: Michigan Supreme Court rejects attempt to ban Trump from 2024 ballot
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2023, 07:33:03 pm »
I see MI as just as liberal as CO, but they got this right.  CO was just plain wrong.
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