Federal Court Ruling Protects Jill Steins Michigan Recount, Despite State Decision [View all]

Michigan’s Court of Appeals ordered the state government on Tuesday evening to undo its previous approval of an election recount requested by Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein.

The decision will not interfere with the ongoing recount in the state, however, due to a 2-1 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that came out around the same time, according to the Detroit Free Press.

The Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld a ruling that U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith issued early Monday morning ordering the recount to proceed at noon that day, and precluding it from stopping until “further order of this court.”

Michigan’s Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette and President-elect Donald Trump filed separate lawsuits with the state appeals court on Friday seeking to block Stein’s crowdfunded recount effort in the Great Lakes State.

The panel of judges on Michigan’s Court of Appeals accepted Schuette’s and Trump’s arguments that Stein, who came in a distant fourth place in Michigan, was not an “aggrieved” party with standing to challenge the election results.


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