The shrinking hopes for a Michigan presidential primary shrank even more on November 19. Michigan State House leaders decided not to meet on November 20. This dooms the bill that would have tinkered with the presidential primary to make it feasible.

The only slight chance for a presidential primary would be for the State Supreme Court to accept the state’s appeal in the Grebner lawsuit, and reverse the lower courts, on the issue of whether it is constitutional for the government to furnish the list of primary participants to the two major parties, and no one else.

But since the State Supreme Court didn’t accept the case on November 19, and since the decision would need to come by noon, November 21, that scenario seems unlikely.

If there is no Michigan presidential primary, the Republicans will choose their national delegates at a state convention on January 25-26. Democrats would hold caucuses, but no one knows when they would be held.