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The presidential campaign of Dr. Cornel West announced Tuesday that it would contest the disqualification of West and his running mate, Dr. Melina Abdullah, from appearing on the Michigan state ballot in court. The disqualification stemmed from procedural concerns raised in an earlier challenge. In a press release, the campaign called the challenge baseless, dismissing it as a tactic initiated by the Democratic National Committee and the Michigan Democratic Party to distract voters and suppress opposition to the Biden administration’s policies, particularly regarding the situation in Gaza. The campaign further noted that it has received “overwhelming support” from Michigan voters...

Liberals have been beating their collective breast in recent years over the Bush administration's post-9/11 assault on civil liberties. But Michigan Democrats-- from Gov. Jennifer Granholm to the State Board of Canvassers-- have joined ranks with a radical, 1960s-style Trotskyite group to deny state residents the most basic of all rights: the right to vote. The group, which... calls itself By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), has been engaged in a long guerilla campaign to prevent the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) from getting on the state ballot. This initiative, backed by Ward Connerly, ...seeks to end, once and for all,...