I can’t read the article because paywall, but I assume this ruling is based on the fact that political parties are “technically” private entities and therefore primaries are “technically” legally-meaningless private contests that said parties can run however they want.

Which is all bullshit, of course – if political parties were truly private then they wouldn’t get any support from the state whatsoever to run their fake elections, for starters – but just goes to show how their corruption and power lets them (as de-facto government entities) get away without accountability or oversight.

Judge James Robert Redford of the Court of Claims in Michigan said that the disqualification of a candidate through the 14th Amendment “is a nonjusticiable, political” issue and that it was up to Congress, and not the courts, to settle the matter.

In his 26-page ruling in Mr. Trump’s case, Judge Redford explained that the disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment presented complex questions — for example, what qualifies as an insurrection or rebellion — that were ultimately inappropriate to be resolved in court.