Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Appeal To Disqualify Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Free Speech For People's similar challenge to disqualify Trump from running for 2024 presidential primary is pending in Oregon.
32% : A nine-member House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill attack said in its report that Trump had knowledge about the riot in advance, and that he engaged in a "multi-part plan" to overturn the result.
30% : A lawsuit filed by Pro-democracy advocacy group Free Speech For People on behalf of a group of Michigan voters sought to invoke an insurrection clause in the US Constitution, and to disqualify Trump from election over his role in the 2021 Capitol riots.
27% : The decision comes a week after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump cannot contest for next year's presidential election from the state's ballot, citing an insurrection clause in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. constitution.
21% : "The decision isn't binding on any court outside Michigan and we continue our current and planned legal actions in other states to enforce Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment against Donald Trump," he said in a statement.

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