Ballot Access News
December 2023 – Volume 39, Number 7
| This issue was printed on blue paper. |
SEVEN COURTS REFUSE TO REMOVE
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FROM VARIOUS BALLOTS
During November, seven courts (in six states) refused to remove former President Donald Trump from various Republican presidential primary ballots. Most of the cases are being appealed, and there are thirteen other lawsuits pending on the same subject that don’t even have an opinion from the trial court yet.
In all cases involving Trump’s ballot access, the basis for the lawsuits is the Fourteenth Amendment, section three, which says “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”