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

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

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.

[GreenWave]

1. The land of Lincoln! Go get him!

[onecaliberal]

2. K&R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. If the board won't allow my dog on the ballot, they have the legal standing.

[ShazzieB]

4. Fantastic news!

Go, Illinois! I'm extra, extra excited about this one! Woo-hoo!

P.S. Here's a link to another news story with no paywall: https://www.wbez.org/stories/trumps-candidacy-is-challenged-by-a-group-of-illinois-residents/6fd7f8c7-36cb-47bd-b278-f42333d3c0e5

[ancianita]

8. Me, too! Illinois had better get its best legal minds on this, consult Katyal, Tribe, Luttig, et. al.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. I've been waiting for this to happen.

Considering that all branches of our state government are controlled by Democrats.

[PortTack]

6. Kudos to those savvy voters in the Land of Lincoln

[getagrip_already]

7. we dont want biden states doing this!

Look, if biden is going to win this state on his own, leave it alone.

To take stinky off the ballot will only create a situation where a third party candidate becomes attractive as a protest vote. It would also depress dem turnout.

Add those together and biden might actually lost that state, and be denied the EV's. We DON'T want that.

Limit this to swing and red states. Or, all states.

[LiberalFighter]

9. If TFG is disqualified in any state

He will have even fewer popular votes. Hopefully it will be ten or twenty million or more than Biden.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. 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.