The metro Detroit alt-right legal advocate who cleared the way for Richard Spencer to speak at Michigan State University says he's withdrawing from politics following news stories that highlighted racist statements he's made over the years.Kyle Bristow, the executive director of the Foundation for the Market Place of Ideas, announced he would resign from the role in a statement posted to the FMI website Saturday. The Clinton Township-based group is to host an alt-right conference featuring Spencer, Cameron Padgett, and other white nationalists at a secret location in metro Detroit on Sunday, the eve of Spencer's visit to MSU.
[content-1]"The media is not whatsoever justified in vilifying me," Bristow says in the letter.…