Michigan Supreme Court to decide on Jocelyn Benson’s restrictions for poll watchers

The Midwesterner ^ | June 20, 2024 | The Midwesterner Staff

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Michigan Supreme Court will soon determine whether Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson circumvented the rule making process to impose restrictions on poll challengers.

The case argued before the state’s highest court on Tuesday is only the latest in a string of lawsuits over election rules Benson imposed through a manual issued to clerks in 2022 that has since led to repeated defeats in lower courts.

On Tuesday, arguments centered on instructions for election challengers, which involve a uniform credential form, limits on recordings, and a ban on electronic devices during absentee vote counting, The Detroit News reports.

State and national Republican parties are challenging the rules that did not go through the Legislature’s bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules as required, arguing they violate state election laws.

“Absent compliance with that process, the rules are invalid,” Republican attorney Robert Avers told the court, according to WEMU. “That’s exactly what happened here.”

Republicans filed the case in October 2022, and the Court of Claims sided with them in October 2022, but the Supreme Court suspended the ruling for the 2022 election a month away. The Court of Appeals upheld the Court of Claims ruling last October, sending the case back to the Supreme Court.

“Both of the lower court decisions, the legal maxims discussed by those courts — they’re clear and uncontroversial,” Avers said.

Republican-nominated justices David Viviano and Brian Zahra on Tuesday questioned whether Benson’s vague instructions for clerks give them too much discretion in determining whether challenges can be recorded.

[vikingd00d]

>>Republicans filed the case in October 2022, and the Court of Claims sided with them in October 2022, but the Supreme Court suspended the ruling for the 2022 election a month away. The Court of Appeals upheld the Court of Claims ruling last October, sending the case back to the Supreme Court.

And the SCOMI will likely suspend the ruling again so the Rats can steal the 2024 election.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I don’t want to sound negative but it’s too late. Repubs had 4 years to do something about election integrity, now they are? It’s too late. The Domestic enemy party has a million plans by now to steal, including using illegal aliens. All these fake Trump indictments are blatant election interference, what did they do about it? Nothing. Meanwhile Joe Biden has been engaging in blatant treason, arming the Taliban, arming Hamas, Hezbollah via Iran, assisting criminal foreign invaders, and they investigate Hunter?

[Yo-Yo]

...and a ban on electronic devices during absentee vote counting

No documenting the best avenue for cheating. I'm sure that's just a coincidence...

[RckyRaCoCo]

dems own everything in MI, including flipping the MI supreme court in 2020(?)

[thinden]

one to watch

[gibsonguy]

The Mi SC was the first thing the rats stole in Mi. Everything else followed it. They will rule for the rat SOS bank it.

[simpson96]

What? HER, biased??? The hell you say.

[jimpick]

In Michigan they had more than 4 years to stop the steal. A grass roots effort was put up to remove the rats in the state republican party. The Rinos used Roberts rules to overwhelm the grass roots party because they didnt know the rules as well.

Instead of realizing that their own party wanted change they shut down their own party and kept the status. After that the Dems spent massive money to replace the RINOs. They voters were unconcerned because the party was just Dem lite.

It was so bad that the Dems spent over $1,000,000 on a state house seat in my county to take it.

The reason Michigan is the way it is, is because of RINOs like Romney control the Republican party in Michigan. I plan on leaving the state in the next couple years. I see no way to reverse the course of the state after the Dems took over and control the election counts. I see no way to over come the fraud now.

Thanks RINO’s. We had the state till you stabbed your own voters in thew back.