Lawsuit seeks to boot top GOP candidate from Michigan ballot over Jan. 6 arrest
Ryan Kelley, a leading candidate in Michigan's GOP primary for governor, was arrested last month in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
By Adam Edelman
A progressive political group in Michigan helped file a lawsuit Thursday that seeks to remove GOP candidate Ryan Kelley from the ballot in the governor's race, citing his arrest on Jan. 6 charges.
The suit, filed by a Michigan voter with the help of Progress Michigan, requests Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and the Board of State Canvassers declare Kelley ineligible as a candidate and not count votes that have already been cast for him in the Aug. 2 primary, where early voting is already underway.
The lawsuit also aims to ensure Kelley — the frontrunner on the GOP side — does not appear on the November ballot if he wins the primary because he has “engaged in insurrection in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and therefore is ineligible to serve as a candidate for Governor for the State of Michigan.”
“He is a clear and present danger to democracy in Michigan,” the lawsuit states.
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