Michigan Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Trump's 14th Amendment Case
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Michigan Supreme Court has refused to review a case that sought to ban Donald Trump from having his name placed on the Republican primary ballot in Michigan. This ruling is unsurprising given the unique election laws and procedures in Michigan. If the Michigan Republican Party wants to place a name on its presidential primary ballot, it can put any name it likes, including someone who may otherwise be disqualified from holding public office. That may make little sense, but each state has the right to enact its own election laws and regulations, and Michigan has chose a . . . curious way to go about things. Notably, the Michigan Secretary of State has no legal authority to reject Trump's name even though he engaged in an insurrection. So the Michigan Supreme Court opted to not review the case, as it involved no violation of Michigan election laws. However, if Trump were to win the Republican nomination, the suit will be refiled and the court may then HAVE to review and resolve the case. Indeed, the attorney who brought the case on behalf of the Michigan voters has said he will refile the case if Trump ends up being the Republican nominee.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. The Michigan Supreme Court has refused to hear a case on whether Donald Trump should be kept off the Republican primary ballot in that state. |
| 0:23.0 | Glenn says, as far as Michigan goes, it's not over yet. |
| 0:27.0 | Friends, it's good to be back with you. |
| 0:29.0 | I've been away for a few days. |
| 0:31.0 | I took a little bit of downtime time to re-energize recharge my batteries |
| 0:37.3 | I know I look a little scruffy I haven't even shaved yet don't tell anybody. But I really wanted to take just a little bit of time |
| 0:46.6 | away to gear up for what will be the 2024-24 justice sprint. |
| 0:54.6 | I know I should call it a justice marathon |
| 0:57.5 | because we're going to spend the next 10 months |
| 1:00.9 | sort of running flat out in the direction of accountability, you know, through |
| 1:06.4 | Trump trial after Trump trial to the inevitable first Donald Trump criminal |
| 1:12.4 | conviction and then we will keep running straight |
| 1:14.8 | to November 2024 where you know it's all on the line for American democracy. |
| 1:23.8 | So I hope you will pull on your justice shoes, |
| 1:29.4 | warm up, you don't want to pull a hamstring, stretch. |
| 1:32.4 | And I know you will be running right there with me as |
| 1:36.6 | we take on every legal issue of the day over the course of the next 10 months as we head in the direction of accountability. |
| 1:47.5 | So let's take on this brand new reporting involving the Michigan State Supreme Court because we just |
| 1:55.5 | learned that the Michigan Supreme Court refused to hear a case about |
| 2:00.9 | whether former president and current insurrectionist |
| 2:05.0 | Donald Trump should be barred, should be banned |
| 2:10.0 | from having his name placed on the Republican primary ballot in the state of Michigan. |
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