WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump has scored a win in his legal fight against challenges to his eligibility to run for the White House race again when Michigan’s apex court refused to hear a case seeking to disqualify him from the state’s presidential primary vote, western media reported on Wednesday.
The Court said it would not hear a plea from 4 voters in the state seeking to ban the former president of the US from the February 27 Republican primary for his role in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol.
The voters were of the view that Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, could not serve as president as per the provision in the Constitution of the US that bans people from holding office if they engaged in “insurrection” following swearing an oath to the US.
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the justices said in a brief order that they are not convinced that the questions presented must be reviewed by this Court.
Donald Trump in a post on social media said that the court “strongly denied” what he called an “anxious Democrat effort” to take him off the vote in Michigan.
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The Michigan verdict contrasts with a decision by Colorado’s apex court last week to disqualify Donald Trump under the same constitutional provision. Donald Trump has pledged to appeal the Colorado ruling to the US apex court.
Donald Trump has been indicted in both a federal case and in Georgia for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 polls but he has not been charged with insurrection linked to the January 6 assault.
