It seems that the judge exceeded his authority when riling on a state matter
He did not rule on the matter before the state court at all. He simply ordered a recount to begin because IF the MI courts allowed the recount to go forward, there might not be enough time to satisfy their order.
The state court has now said the canvassing boards decision is improper, and a recount cannot continue under MI law.
This will go to the MI Supreme Court most likely, and then if the MI Supreme Court upholds the MI appeals court ruling, the MI AG will go back to Goldschmidt (the original Fed judge) and ask him to dissolve his order, in accordance with both his own tentative ruling earlier, and the direction of the US appeals court above him, which said that if the MI courts ruled this wasn't illegal under state law, they expected him to vacate his order.
Yes the judge is exceeding his authority. They are proceeding at the threat of being jailed, correct?
We are at a time where we need to not be so intimidated over threats of jail when they are clearly in the wrong and overstepping their authority.
Fear of jail and lawsuits is how we have arrived at the age of judicial tyranny.