DETROIT (AP) A Michigan judge ruled Tuesday that former President Donald Trump will remain on the states primary ballot, dealing a blow to the effort to stop Trumps candidacy with a Civil War-era Constitutional clause.

Court of Claims Judge James Redford rejected arguments that Trumps role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol meant the court had to declare him ineligible for the presidency.

Redford wrote that, because Trump followed state law in qualifying for the primary ballot, he cannot remove the former president. Additionally, he said, it should be up to Congress to decide whether Trump is disqualified under a section of the U.S. Constitutions 14th Amendment that bars from office a person who engaged in insurrection.

The judicial action of removing a candidate from the presidential ballot and prohibiting them from running essentially strips Congress of its ability to by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such a disability, Redford wrote.