Posted on 02/29/2024 10:26:28 AM PST by LibertyWoman
An Illinois state judge has kicked former President Donald Trump off the Illinois' Republican presidential primary ballot due to his alleged role in the January 6 Capitol riots.
Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie Porter ruled in favor of Illinois voters who argued Trump should be disqualified from the state's mid-March primary ballot, as well as the November 5 general election ballot.
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The legal arguments to ban him from the ballot largely revolve around a novel application of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution that depends significantly upon whether or not the January 6 riots can be defined as an insurrection.
The US Supreme Court has taken up the question after a court in Colorado attempted to do the same thing - the judicial body is expected to make a decision on the matter soon.
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The judge wrote in her ruling that she 'realizes the magnitude of this decision and its impact on the upcoming primary Illinois elections.'
'The Illinois State Board of Election shall remove Donald J. Trump from the ballot for the General Primary Election on March 19, 2024, or cause any votes cast for him to be suppressed.
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Porter removed Trump from the ballot one month after the same challenge was dismissed by the Illinois State Board of Elections - a bipartisan body that unanimously voted to throw out the case because they claimed not to have jurisdiction over the matter.
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Nicholas Nelson, one of Trump's lawyers said that January 6th can best be described as a 'political riot.' He said it was an angry mob much more so than an organized group with a series of specific legal aims.
'It was about one government act, and there’s no indication that the rioters had any plan. They were just angry,' he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Haley is loving this
Remember when the left shouted and cried “voter collusion-—Trump is an illegitimate President”? This is the actual collusion with the lame lie of “J-6....J-6”!!!!
Once again, whatever they say of others, they’ve been doing it for quite some time.
right. Were those involved ever ID’d? Funny they can (and have) ID anyone ‘in the crowd’ but when it comes to this specific place, we still don’t have names?
SCOTUS should have ruled on this MONTHS ago.
Why does she look like a white woman - or at least trying to?
IMHO.
Another stupid Dim judge, making up facts not in evidence (insurrection).
Why aren’t the red states following this and kicking Biden off the ballot for not defending the sovereignty of our nation from foreign invaders.
Because she’s another klan with a tan.
I figure this means they think Trump will win Illinois.
I just don’t understand how these judges are permitted to do that. And they seem to be unstoppable.
Today DeSantis permitted the release of the Epstein documents…and a judge simply announced that he wasn’t going to release them. He’s had them since July. How can judges get away with that?
The legislature and the Governor both wanted them released, but the will of the people doesn’t matter when it’s placed against the political whim of the judiciary.
Trump should make a campaign commercial of all the Left-wing attempts to deny his rights to run as a candidate. He’d have a ton of material from which to make soundbytes.
Two unarmed protestors were killed by Capitol police on Jan. 6, 2021. The other officer was a black woman, who was not disciplined for killing a white woman.
According to Jonathan Turley, her ruling was mostly copied from the ruling in Colorado earlier.
Red states are red because they follow (mostly) the constitution and believe in freedom.
Hair compliments of cultural appropriation.
The states have no say in who can be on the ballot and who can’t. As long as candidates file in the timeframe necessary and pay the fee, they cannot be removed, especially front runners. If this is allowed to go through, our republic is over. It was founded on overthrowing tyranny and tyranny has returned.
So it starts. Once the Supreme court fails to rule on this (Roberts is in the left’s pocket, I believe) or puts it off for a year. Liberal judges will just pull Trump off the ballot in every state they can. All they need is the swing states. And, just like that, no more Trump. It will be Nikki or Biden/Obama. How many states need to ban trump before he can not be elected? A simple solution until the next election. Simple solution with only a few Soros judges taking the heat. They retire to their estates and all is cool. No crisis, no Civil War, and the money train of corruption rolls along. It is almost brilliant.
Trump has not been convicted in any court of insurrection. They just can’t pull this out of a hat.
This is an attempt to get in front of the SCOTUS ruling. If SCOTUS allows the states to remove Trump, this ruling is already in place. If the SCOTUS ruling goes against them .... meh, no different than the current situation.
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