I can’t read the article because paywall, but I assume this ruling is based on the fact that political parties are “technically” private entities and therefore primaries are “technically” legally-meaningless private contests that said parties can run however they want.
Which is all bullshit, of course – if political parties were truly private then they wouldn’t get any support from the state whatsoever to run their fake elections, for starters – but just goes to show how their corruption and power lets them (as de-facto government entities) get away without accountability or oversight.
Judge James Robert Redford of the Court of Claims in Michigan said that the disqualification of a candidate through the 14th Amendment “is a nonjusticiable, political” issue and that it was up to Congress, and not the courts, to settle the matter.
Basically he said insurrection can’t be defined by the court system…
Sounds a lot like passing the buck. Or taking a page out of the SCOTUS playbook.
Nope. Michigan primaries are run by the state like any other election.
We have open primaries, anyone who’s registered to vote can vote in our primaries.
My guess is Trump’s not been convicted of acts that would disqualify him.
This was always a flimsy case, without a conviction that we should already have.
Guess what everybody. We can do whatever we want! So start stocking up on guns and weaponry legal or not! /S
I mean we always knew right… But now we know for sure. Nothing matters anymore. Do whatever you want!
We are inching closer to a time where the next crazy mass shooter might be a hero in the history books. Although that little kid that ran scared during that 2020 protest may have already done it.
Quit raising flags. It’s cooked and finished.
(Disregard this emotional dramatized post.)
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