West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey issued a statement following a Michigan Supreme Court decision not to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot.
“The integrity of our country’s election process is at stake here—the Michigan Supreme Court is right not to hear this appeal and keep President Trump on the ballot,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “The rights of the voters and candidates should be protected because any eligible candidate has the right to be on the ballot unless legally disqualified. Excluding an eligible candidate from the ballot deprives citizens of the right to choose for themselves who they want to represent them in every level of government, and it impedes a fair and free election process.”
Earlier in December, the Attorney General co-led a multistate coalition in filing a brief asking the Michigan Court of Appeals to keep Trump on the ballot.
That coalition argued the “Fourteenth Amendment entrusts Insurrection Clause questions to Congress—not state officials or state courts.”
Just before Christmas, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia Charleston Division dismissed a lawsuit seeking to disqualify Trump from running in the upcoming West Virginia Presidential Primary and General Elections.
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