{"id":11582,"date":"2024-02-29T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2024-02-29T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:24:35","slug":"donald-trump-is-stripped-from-illinois-republican-primary-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/donald-trump-is-stripped-from-illinois-republican-primary-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is stripped from Illinois Republican primary ballots\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Illinois<\/a> state judge has kicked former President Donald Trump<\/a> off the Illinois’ Republican presidential primary ballot due to his alleged role in the January 6 Capitol<\/a> riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voters brought their case over Trump’s behavior on\u00a0January 6<\/a>, 2021, when he allegedly violated the anti-insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illinois is presently one of a small handful of states attempting to disqualify the likely Republican nominee for president from both the primary and general election ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Supreme Court has taken up the question<\/a> after a court in Colorado attempted to do the same thing – the judicial body is expected to make a decision on the matter soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court is widely expected to reject arguments that Trump should be barred from holding office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porter’s ruling relied heavily on the prior finding of the Colorado Supreme Court, whose decision the US Supreme Court will likely say is incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge wrote in her ruling that she ‘realizes the magnitude of this decision and its impact on the upcoming primary Illinois elections.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘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.’\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late January, Porter pushed Trump’s legal team on the technical difference between a ‘riot’ and an ‘insurrection.’ She also questioned if Trump first had to be convicted of a crime before being barred from office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Is it important to understand why this mob of people came together and what they were actually trying to do?’ the judge asked Trump’s attorneys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘It was about one government act, and there\u2019s no indication that the rioters had any plan.\u00a0They were just angry,’ he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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