LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Lee Estes is at it again.

After an unsuccessful attempt to remove former Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley from the ballot, he has now filed a lawsuit targeting Michigan State Representative Matt Maddock.

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The lawsuit is Estes v. Jocelyn Benson, in her official capacity as Secretary of State, and the Board of State Canvassers.

The lawsuit was filed on August 1st to prevent State Representative Matt Maddock from appearing on the November 8, 2022 general election ballot as a candidate for State Representative in House District 51 because he has “engaged in insurrection” in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Estes, a democrat supporter, is a retired Oakland County attorney. His attorney in the case, Mark Brewer, is also a democrat. Brewer is a political consultant in addition to being an attorney and a member of the Democratic National Committee. He’s also the former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party and a past chair of the Association of
State Democratic Chairs.

The lawsuit states that Maddock and his wife, Meshawn, the Michigan Republican Party co-chair, told their followers that the 2020 election was stolen with no evidence for their claims.

State Rep. Matt Maddock

In addition to that, the lawsuit alleges that Maddock posted on his social media site, “Who is available to go to (TCF Center) right now to help monitor the vote?”

This was cited in the lawsuit as “attended and incited a mob of protestors to go to the TCF Center where absentee ballots for the City of Detroit were being counted by spreading misinformation about what was occurring there. The mob chanted ‘stop the count’ and ‘let us in,” and pounded on the windows of the room. Police were needed to
keep order. From inside the counting room, Maddock posted a Facebook video with false information about activity in the room.”

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The lawsuit lists many pages of occurrences that Estes cites as insurrectionist behavior including questioning the validity of the 2020 election; asking voters to post evidence of election fraud; helping to bus supporters to DC for the January 6th Trump rally; writing a letter to VP Mike Pence asking him not to certify the 2020 election results; attempting to send 16 fake electors into the Capitol building and more.

The lawsuit also claims that Maddock participated in the January 6th Capitol protest and they said, “The Maddocks marched with the rioters toward the Capitol.”

The lawsuit asks the court to declare that Matt Maddock has violated the Insurrection Clause and is ineligible to be a candidate for the Michigan Legislature as well as asking to order the defendants not to certify or place Maddock on the general election ballot.

Estes’ and his attorney asked for an expedited hearing and disposition of the matter and to grant such other relief as necessary or appropriate.

Estes went down this same road before trying to get Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley off the ballot. He lost the case when the three-judge panel said that his request should have been made sooner, not so close to the August primary.

Their statement was “We express no opinion on whether Kelley engaged in ‘insurrection or rebellion’ or whether Kelley is qualified to serve as a gubernatorial candidate as a result.”

Another similar lawsuit took place against Republican US Rep. Madison Cawthorn (RNC) by Democrat activists January 2022. A judge shot down their efforts in March saying that a 1872 amnesty law passed by Congress repealed the “disqualification clause” in the 14th Amendment.