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		</div><p>Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former US president Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot.</p>
<p>The court said on Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Mr Trump from appearing on the ballot.</p>
<p>The state’s high court said in an order that the application by parties to appeal against a December 14th Michigan appeals court judgment was considered but denied “because we are not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this court”.</p>
<p>The ruling followed a December 19th decision by a divided Colorado Supreme Court which found Mr Trump ineligible to be president because of his role in the January 6th, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.</p>
<p>That ruling was the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.</p>
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<p>The Michigan and Colorado cases are among dozens hoping to keep Mr Trump’s name off state ballots.</p>
<p>They all point to the so-called insurrection clause that prevents anyone from holding office who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the constitution.</p>
<p>Mr Trump pressed two election officials in Michigan’s Wayne County not to certify 2020 vote totals, according to a recording of a post-election phone call disclosed in a December 22nd report by The Detroit News.</p>
<p>The former president’s 2024 campaign has neither confirmed nor denied the recording’s legitimacy.</p>
<p>Lawyers for Free Speech for People, a liberal non-profit group also involved in efforts to keep Mr Trump’s name off the primary ballot in Minnesota, had asked Michigan’s Supreme Court to render its decision by Christmas Day.</p>
<p>The group argued that time was “of the essence” due to “the pressing need to finalise and print the ballots for the presidential primary election”.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Michigan’s high court refused to immediately hear an appeal, saying the case should remain before the appeals court.</p>
<p>Free Speech for People had sued to force Michigan secretary of state Jocelyn Benson to bar Mr Trump from Michigan’s ballot.</p>
<p>But a Michigan Court of Claims judge rejected its arguments, saying in November that it was the proper role of Congress to decide the question.</p>
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