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Michigan: Judge rules RFK JR name must remain on ballot
The Hill ^ | September 3, 2024 | Lauren Irwin

Posted on 09/04/2024 3:35:56 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

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A judge in Michigan ruled Tuesday that independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must stay on the state’s presidential ballot.

Kennedy announced earlier this month he would be withdrawing from the race and threw his support behind former President Trump. He said he was trying to take his name off ballots in swing states where, if he stayed on the ticket, he could draw votes away from the former president. He will remain on blue and red state ballots.

Michigan and Wisconsin, key Midwest purple states, rejected Kennedy’s attempt to remove his name from the ballot, citing their state laws for a candidate or nominee withdrawing.

In North Carolina, the state’s board of elections said it was too late for Kennedy to withdraw since ballots had already begun being printed. Kennedy filed a lawsuit in an attempt to remove his name.

Kennedy filed a similar lawsuit in Michigan’s Court of Claims against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) after his attempt to be removed from the ballot was rejected.

A judge Tuesday determined Kennedy will appear on Michigan’s ballot this November, The Associated Press reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: michigan; rfkjr; robertkennedyjr; trump
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But it's quite alright to take Biden's name off the ballot.
1 posted on 09/04/2024 3:35:56 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

They take of actual candidates who are running, but keep him on.

This is election fraud. Not vote fraud, per se, but a component of election fraud.


2 posted on 09/04/2024 3:39:21 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

A few short weeks ago they were fighting to get his name OFF the ballot.


3 posted on 09/04/2024 3:40:23 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Michigan and Wisconsin, key Midwest purple states, rejected Kennedy’s attempt to remove his name from the ballot, citing their state laws for a candidate or nominee withdrawing.

In North Carolina, the state’s board of elections said it was too late for Kennedy to withdraw since ballots had already begun being printed.


The idiots at the RNC better be suing to keep Biden's name on the ballot in these states.
4 posted on 09/04/2024 3:44:42 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Macho MAGA Man

A pundit said a few days ago this election ploy by the Leftist Michigan AG and Governor will cost some Trump votes.
They know it is dishonest to tell voters they can vote for the man who said he doesn’t want to be on the ballot here.

They are such filthy that I feel like taking a shower after being in the same state with them here.

Chief Thomas McGrath on Law and Order SVU:
“You’re all making a mistake by treating them as if they are humans. They’re not. They’re politicians.”


5 posted on 09/04/2024 3:44:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ifinnegan
This is election fraud. Not vote fraud, per se, but a component of election fraud.

That's always been my take on the 2020 election. The left asks, "Where's the voter fraud?" and although there was voter fraud, the real issue was election fraud writ large.

6 posted on 09/04/2024 3:45:55 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo (No one is above the law, but some are more above the law than others.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Remember, all the states worked hard to keep Trump from being on a state’s ballot if he had been charged, and then also if he had been convicted of a crime? After totally false claims against him in kangaroo courts.

Took a SCOTUS decision to keep a major party’s leading candidate on the primary and November ballots.

What a country.
Third World ones would blush over that.


7 posted on 09/04/2024 3:47:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Judges don’t or shouldn’t have the authority.


8 posted on 09/04/2024 3:48:23 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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To: frank ballenger

typo: they are such filth....

I could have said they stink like a pig’s rear end in the summertime.

(from Boondock Saints II).


9 posted on 09/04/2024 3:49:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~ Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~ Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. ~ Quoted in ‘Clarence Darrow for the Defense’ by Irving Stone.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~ John Quinton, American actor/writer

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.~Oscar Ameringer, “the Mark Twain of American Socialism.

I offered my opponents a deal: “if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them”. ~ Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~ Texas Guinan. 19th-century American businessman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~ Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games

I am reminded of a joke: What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution. What happens if all of them drown? That is a solution!

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two are lawyers and three or more are the government.~John Adams (1735 - 1826)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Government. But then I repeat myself. ~ Mark Twain (1835- 1910)

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts! ~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)

I contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~ Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

A Government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul! ~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)

The problem we face today is because the people that work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. ~ George Bernard Shaw


10 posted on 09/04/2024 3:52:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Leaving Abortion up to the States is like Leaving Slavery up to the States.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

It is according to who wants what whether it happens or not.

The right people wanted Bidens’s name off.

The right people did not want RFK’s name off.

Hence Biden’s name came off.

RFK’s name did not come off.

It is not who you know, but who you blow.


11 posted on 09/04/2024 3:52:27 PM PDT by sport
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To: Macho MAGA Man
People who are unaware RFK Jr. has dropped his candidacy and endorsed Trump are the epitome of low information voters.

Many of them are shallow thinkers and easily influenced, making them prime targets of Kamala's emotional ploy ("Oh, she'll be the first woman president. I want to be part of something historic!").

If Kennedy weren't on the ballot, probably lots of these low information voters would vote for Harris.
12 posted on 09/04/2024 3:57:04 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The more names on the ballots the more “votes” the ‘Rats can transfer to their candidate.

The “press” will be amazed by all of the RFK Jr. voters who decided to vote for Kamabla.


13 posted on 09/04/2024 3:57:40 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I’m telling you we are now living in a communist country already when you have corrupt judges like this. Conservatives will never win anything while we have corrupt judges corrupt voting machines corrupt RINOS corrupt FBI corrupt DOJ corrupt CIA corrupt president corrupt lawyers corrupt governors corrupt city officials corrupt Pentagon generals captains admirals corrupt media pukes …there’s no escaping them! This nation is really really screwed.


14 posted on 09/04/2024 4:04:26 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The Demonicrats didn’t want to give RFK,Jr Secret Service protection when he was a running as a presidential candidate. In fact, the Demonicrats fought to keep RFK,Jr off the ballot, even as an independent, because they thought it would hurt them. They finally gave him SS protection after DJT was nearly assassinated.

When RFK,Jr quit the race and supported DJT, the Demonicrats are now fighting to keep him on the ballot in several states as a presidential candidate, because it would help the Demonicrat presidential ticket of lying idiots. Yet despite their claims that RFK,Jr remain on those ballots as a presidential candidate, they have ordered RFK,Jr’s SS protection stopped.


15 posted on 09/04/2024 4:06:20 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Bon of Babble

“A few short weeks ago they were fighting to get his name OFF the ballot.”

Excellent point.


16 posted on 09/04/2024 4:08:48 PM PDT by Parley Baer (e)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Early voting and mass absentee and mail-in voting are compounding evils. When does early voting begin? When do ballots have to be mailed? (Bear in mind the longstanding issues with late arriving military absentees.) Back up from the mailing dates to allow for close inspection of the ballots — remembering that ballots vary from one state legislative, city council, or myriad county level race to another — and then add printing time.

I don’t know if the Michigan deadlines are unreasonable or not, but there has to be a drop-dead date somewhere, and it ain’t election day. The Trump and RFK, Jr. campaigns are responsible for knowing the dates. So would the Michigan GOP — a notoriously dysfunctional mess in recent years — but it probably wasn’t in the loop on the RFK, Jr. endorsement.


17 posted on 09/04/2024 4:09:55 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“black-robed tyrants work 24/7 to destroy the freedoms of the masses” applies.


18 posted on 09/04/2024 4:09:59 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Because it might cause chaos for a political leader to change
his mind and wish to be removed from the ballot...

Gotta hand that judge the Fickeled Finger of Fate Award
for his absence of any logic whatsoever on this.

As Macho MAGA Man said in post 1, it’s okay for Biden to
withdraw his name though? LMAO So transparent!

Second grade logic, check!


19 posted on 09/04/2024 4:17:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: Fledermaus

No single person should have the authority to do a lot of what happens.

Senate majority leader deciding that a bill that could affect the lived of millions for decades shouldn’t be voted on by the elected representatives of the people, a psycho governor paid to go full lockdown during the plandemic, my boss telling 15 people they have to give up time with their families and stay two hours late whether they like it or not, my girlfriend deciding what’s for supper all by herself...


20 posted on 09/04/2024 4:24:18 PM PDT by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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