Michigan’s secretary of state announced she will not attempt to block former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballots, coming after activists and other groups have sought to disqualify the former president based on a reading of a section of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
“We’re not the eligibility police. We are responsible for ensuring that basic facts are met to get someone on the ballot,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat who has frequently been critical of the former president, told Axios this week. She was responding to calls from pressure groups to keep him from the ballot.
