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Young, Larsen remove themselves from recount

Two state Supreme Court justices have removed themselves from decisions related to the stalled recount of presidential ballots in Michigan.

State Supreme Court Justices Robert Young and Joan Larsen took themselves off the case because both are on President-elect Donald Trump’s list of potential United States Supreme Court nominees. That still leaves a three-to-two Republican majority on the court.

   The Trump campaign convinced a lower court to shut down the recount. Trump won Michigan in November.

   Michigan’s high court is considering a motion filed by the campaign of Green Party candidate Jill Stein to restart the recount.

   Mark Brewer is a Stein campaign attorney.

   “I think it’s even worse to start the recount than not complete it because there’s going    to be even more unanswered questions as a result of stopping the recount where we           did.”

   The deadline to wrap up the recount is Tuesday.