[OldBill]

Illinois on Wednesday became the third state to declare former President Donald Trump ineligible to run for the presidency because of his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.


Chicago-based Judge Tracie Porter, an elected Democrat, ruled that Trump was not qualified for the presidency under an interpretation of a provision of the 14th Amendment that bars from office those who engaged in an insurrection after previously taking an oath to support the Constitution.

The Supreme Court heard arguments earlier this month on a Colorado ruling that deemed Trump ineligible, and justices across the ideological spectrum seemed skeptical that states have the authority to disqualify presidential candidates under the so-called insurrection clause.

The state board of elections had relied heavily on a report from Clark Erickson, a former Republican state judge who served as a hearing officer to the challenge in Illinois. Erickson’s recommendation to the board: It was not allowed to make the call on Trump’s eligibility — but if it believed it could, it should remove Trump.

Colorado became the first state to find Trump ineligible to run again for the presidency, with the state Supreme Court ruling in December that he was barred for stoking an insurrection on Jan. 6. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows followed a week later by similarly disqualifying Trump from that state’s ballot.

She also found that Trump “falsely swore in his statement of candidacy” in Illinois when he signed on the form that he was legally qualified to run for the presidency — because he had already been found to have engaged in an insurrection by the Colorado Supreme Court.
omg they have his fawking signature in ink

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[Saintsfan1977]

You are going to melt and lose your shit when Trump wins in November. It's guaranteed. In fact it's one bet you SHOULD make but you won't.