However, said derailing isn’t over the calendar, but on another provision in the law. The AP reports: Court rejects early Michigan primary:

A state appeals court on Friday dealt a blow to Michigan political leaders’ hopes of holding a presidential primary on Jan. 15.

In a 2-1 ruling, Judges Patrick Meter and Donald Owens objected that a law recently passed by the Legislature setting up the primary would let the state political parties keep track of voters’ names and whether they took Democratic or GOP primary ballots but give no public access to that information.

It is ironic that the timing issue itself isn’t the problem.

The oddest part is that the situation may lead the Michigan GOP to select their delegates via a convention, hence removing the Republican voters of their state from the equation entirely:

If no primary is held, Republicans will make their choices at a Jan. 25-26 party convention. Democrats also could move up their caucuses, although no date has been set.

The legislature can fix the problem, but they only have two weeks to do so.