The state judge seemingly left the door open for a future 14th Amendment fight over the former president’s eligibility for a general election.
  • RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • MagicShel@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      Wasn’t the law originally applied to folks who weren’t convicted? That would make requiring a conviction wrong.

      • RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        It was after the civil war, a general amnesty had been declared nobody was being tried.

        Furthermore they where obviously guilty, with a serious paper trail of a rebal government to back up their guilt.

        Trump is garbage who defied his oath and committed treason… But he still deserves a trial first. And that trial should have already completed.