Donald Trump's presidential candidacy challenged in Illinois for 2024 elections

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This will be fun to watch

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/1/4/24025078/donald-trump-illinois-primary-ballot-candidacy-challenge

Five voters formally objected to former President Donald Trump’s newly-filed state nominating petitions Thursday on grounds that he helped engineer the fatal mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, adding Illinois to the national debate about Trump’s legal status as a presidential candidate.

In a filing obtained exclusively by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, the objectors want the State Board of Elections to disqualify Trump as a presidential candidate in Illinois’ March 19 primary and Nov. 5 general elections.

They argue that Trump violated a provision in the 14th Amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding public office, claiming he encouraged rioters to swarm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 to block Democrat Joe Biden’s certification as president.

The state election board has openly questioned its authority to invoke the constitutional insurrection clause as a basis to sack a presidential candidate. The agency has suggested the dispute is one that Illinois’ courts or its legislature needs to resolve.

But the objectors believe the state elections board does have the legal standing to take on the question, though their arguments ultimately may land in a court of law, as similar disputes in other states involving Trump have.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Hell, yeah! God move, Illinoise!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. If the state board has ever kept someone unqualified off the ballot...

Then it has the power and duty to determine if traitortrump is disqualified, without waiting for the legislature or court.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Trump's candidacy is challenged by a group of Illinois residents

Link to tweet

https://www.wbez.org/stories/trumps-candidacy-is-challenged-by-a-group-of-illinois-residents/6fd7f8c7-36cb-47bd-b278-f42333d3c0e5

Five voters formally objected to former President Donald Trump’s newly-filed state nominating petitions Thursday, citing his role fomenting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021 and now adding Illinois to the national debate about Trump’s legal status as a presidential candidate.

In a filing obtained exclusively by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, the objectors believe Trump is disqualified as a presidential candidate and want the State Board of Elections to block him from appearing on Illinois’ March 19 primary and Nov. 5 general election ballots.

They argue that Trump is disqualified by a provision in the 14th Amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding public office, claiming he encouraged rioters to swarm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to block Democrat Joe Bidren’s certification as president.

The state election board has openly questioned its authority to invoke the constitutional insurrection clause as a basis to sack a presidential candidate. The agency has suggested the dispute is one that Illinois’ courts or its legislature needs to resolve.

[malaise]

4. A groundswell is coming

Byebye Slobby - you effin criminal treasonous scumbag rapist fraudster of a liar.

[Chakaconcarne]

5. But it looks like he's back on in Colorado

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/01/04/jena-griswold-colorado-secretary-of-state-trump-supreme-court-ruling-appeal-sot-nn-vpx.cnn

...and all the SC needs to do is delay their ruling on the appeal for a month or 2 and he stays on.