Efforts are underway in nearly a third of U.S. states to prevent former President Donald Trump from running for the 2024 presidency, citing the 14th Amendment’s prohibition against individuals who have committed insurrection.
A Colorado court ruled in favor of this argument.
Four states have rejected claims seeking to bar Trump, which includes Florida, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Today I sent a letter urging @DrWeber4CA to explore every legal option to remove former President Trump from CA’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.https://t.co/NA1CnCfFYC
— Eleni Kounalakis (@EleniForCA) December 20, 2023
There are 16 other states that have cases or appeals pending.
This inlcudes Alaska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The cases in Arizona and Michigan were dismissed, but have been appealed.
Lastly, the case in Maine has been dormant, but remains a potential challenge against Trump appearing on the ballot.
“It does bother me quite deeply. This is exceptionally dangerous. I mean, it is an anti-democratic opinion, and it could set us on a course that would be incredibly destabilizing for our system,” George Washington University’s Jonathan Turley said.
“Our system is not perfect, but the one thing that it can recommend itself for is that it’s been stable.”
“It survived crises that reduced other countries to a fine pumice. And so we have a system that is built to last,” he said.
“This is introducing a new element. This is introducing the ability of states to effectively block the leading candidate for the presidency by barring them from ballots, and it will result in a tit-for-tat.”
“And this is something that is quite familiar in other countries,” he said.
“This is the way things are in places like Iran, where they have ballot cleansing, where you have people in government tell you who’s just not appropriate for you to vote for,” Turley said.
“And we’re looking down that road. Quite fortunately, we have a Supreme Court that I think will make fast work of this.”
“I think that they’re just dead wrong on the history, on the language, on the interpretation of the 14th Amendment,” he concluded.
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