The recount is on in Michigan, following a flurry of court action, and more coming up.
The Michigan Court of Appeals rules that the Board of State Canvassers should not have allowed a recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein to proceed, because she has no chance to overturn the result of the presidential election in her favor.
The ruling came with a 2-1 order from the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals which upheld U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith’s order that the recount must get under way at noon that day. It did.
The two rulings set up further court proceedings in front of Goldsmith. The Michigan Republican Party has already filed for another federal hearing.
The Michigan Attorney General is now filing in the federal district court a motion to dissolve a temporary restraining order.
Local clerks continued to uncover problems that made dozens of precincts ineligible for recount.