Ousted Michigan Republican Party chair seeks help from appeals court

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals is being urged to step into a dispute over leadership of the state Republican Party.

Lawyers for Kristina Karamo asked the court Wednesday to throw out a decision by a Kent County judge, who said a January vote to oust her was valid.

Judge Joseph Rossi said Tuesday that any actions by Karamo since Jan. 6 are “void and have no effect.”

“The order has injected more chaos into the political process,” Karamo’s lawyers said of Rossi’s injunction. “The order will require a complete change of party administration, as well as cancellation or attempted cancellations of leases, contracts and other legal obligations, leaving the (party) in further disarray.”

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Karamo wants the appeals court to make a ruling by Friday, a day before she had planned to hold a major meeting in Detroit to select presidential delegates for the party’s national convention.

But former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, with backing from the national party and former President