Illinois judge removes Trump from ballot because of ‘insurrectionist ban’
Illinois judge removes Trump from ballot because of ‘insurrectionist ban’
In a surprise move, an Illinois judge has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s so-called “insurrectionist ban.”
In a surprise move, an Illinois judge has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s so-called “insurrectionist ban.”
The decision is paused, giving Trump a short period of time to appeal.
Wednesday’s unexpected decision comes as a similar anti-Trump challenge from Colorado is pending before the US Supreme Court, which is widely expected to reject arguments that Trump is barred from office.
Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie Porter heavily relied on the prior finding by the Colorado Supreme Court, calling Colorado’s “rationale compelling.”
Good, just in time for it to not matter. Glad they're being so quick about it. Great judicial system.
'Insurrectionist ban', also know as the law and order this jackass bloviates about.
One of the reasons SCOTUS won't let this stand is they don't want the fracturing of ballots state by state. But that's actually kind of an interesting proposal to fix Presidential systems.
Parliamentary systems can be better because the power is in the People's House, you can't have a Jan 6th in the UK because the Prime Minister is not their own branch of government they are the leader of Parliament.
If there's a patchwork of ballots, it makes it more likely nobody can get to 270 and it goes to Congress to decide who gets elected. Pretty big change in power structures in Washington if that became the regular way we elect a president.
When someone still didn't read what he actually tweeted. I hate this timeline.
I enjoyed not really hearing about this dumbfuck clown for the past few years and here comes election year, so we're going to hear about every little detail of this stupid shit for the whole year. If you people would stop engaging with content featuring him, then he wouldn't get as much press. Now every time he takes a shit, it's front page news.