Now, today's politics are completely insane.

The polarization is just beyond anything I've ever seen.

Certainly, it's as bad as what the politics were during the civil war between North and South.

So, moving to the 2024 election, of course, former President Trump has his staunch supporters that will literally take a bullet for him and will follow him to the death.

On the other side, there are plenty of people that will do anything to keep him from running or being elected president.

One of those, and this is what happened in Michigan, the Secretary of State in Michigan,

filed a lawsuit to use the 14th Amendment's, quote, insurrectionist ban, I'll tell you about

that in a minute, to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in Michigan.

And the judge ruled, first of all, Michigan's Secretary of State doesn't even have the power under state law to determine the former president's eligibility for office.

And second of all, how do you define what a violation of the insurrectionist ban is?

Because here is what it is.

Part of the 14th Amendment says anyone who took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution is banned from office if they engaged in insurrection.

And so the argument is that Donald Trump, in his election denial mode, everything he did to deny the election and keep himself in power illegally, engaged in insurrection and therefore can be banned from holding office.

And in this case, since it's a presidential, of course, Michigan can't stop a president from being elected, except it can in its own state.

Because the states control the election process, not the feds.

Every state has different rules, and every state has an issue of electors, and it's all a party issue.

So the court said no. And I think here's the problem,

by the way. I don't know if Michigan Secretary of State could say no and no to being on the

ballot if Trump is in fact convicted of engaging in insurrection,

if there is a court battle, but at this point,

well, there is a court battle, but there's no conviction.

There's been no determination that he, in fact, did what he did.

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