Lawsuit Seeks To Bar Trump From Michigan 2024 Ballot

Michigan Live reports:

Former President Donald Trump should be ineligible to appear on either of Michigan’s 2024 ballots due to his involvement with the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, according to a lawsuit filed in the Michigan Court of Claims Friday.

The suit hinges on the concept that Trump, during his 2020 re-election campaign – and afterwards, when it became apparent he lost the contest to now-President Joe Biden – engaged in insurrection and should be legally barred from holding office again under a section of the Fourteenth Amendment.

It is the third challenge to Trump’s ballot eligibility after similar actions were filed in Colorado and Minnesota. It was filed by Free Speech for People, the same group behind the Minnesota lawsuit.

Read the full article. In a separate action, last month a man known locally as a “serial litigator” petitioned Michigan Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson to bar Trump from the ballot. Benson has indicated that she will decline, telling CNN that secretaries of state are not the “eligibility police” and must rely on court rulings.

Former President Donald Trump should be ineligible to appear on either of Michigan’s 2024 ballots due to his involvement with the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, according to a lawsuit filed in the Michigan Court of Claims Friday. https://t.co/mYIcpZvIMf

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