Michigan Supreme Court rejects attempt to remove Trump from ballot
FOX NewsDEC 2023
Michigan Rejects Attempt to Ban Trump From Primary Ballot
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The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
The Biden administration’s attempts to paint Trump as an insurrectionist are lunacy, and in fact, he hasn’t been charged with insurrection in any of the politically motivated criminal cases against him. The Michigan court chose reason over a witch hunt, and hopefully, other states will follow suit, as this election interference by the incumbent president is wasting Trump’s resources and tearing apart the American electoral system.
Anti-Trump narrative
The court ducked its responsibility to make sure political parties are only putting candidates on a state’s primary ballot who are eligible to serve in the office — a category that excludes insurrectionists. This narrow decision, though, allows for a challenge to the general election ballot if Trump is the nominee and allows other states to take up the matter moving forward.