Posted on 01/07/2024 3:01:32 PM PST by lowbridge
The Illinois State Board of Elections (SBE) will hold a vote this month to decide whether to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's GOP primary ballot after a handful of voters filed a petition claiming he disqualified himself from holding public office.
The petition, similar to those filed in more than a dozen other states, cites the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits anyone from holding office who previously has taken an oath to defend the Constitution and then later "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the country or given "aid or comfort" to its enemies.
The 87-page document was signed by five people from across the state and claims that Trump encouraged and supported those who took part in the Capitol protests on January 6, 2021.
The SBE is now forced to decide whether Trump will remain an option for Republican voters during the March 19 primary.
Matt Dietrich, a spokesperson for the Illinois SBE, told Fox News Digital that the case will be assigned to a hearing officer during a special board meeting on January 17. The hearing officer, Dietrich said, is usually an election lawyer, retired judge or a retired member of the Illinois SBE's executive staff.
The hearing officer will be tasked with scheduling hearings on the objection with both parties and providing a recommendation to the SBE's general counsel. Dietrich said the general counsel will then, in turn, make a recommendation on the matter to the full board, which will hear the case on January 30.
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My local PTA is gathering to decide whether to kick President Retard offf the ballot
you’d think after so many election cycles the voters would catch on to the fact that these people work for them.
Pelosi is advising states that they don’t have to listen to the SC. Now she supports state rights.
This seems like a conspiracy to deprive Illinoisans of their voting rights and it also seems like insurrection and election interference.
I hope the Supremem Court nails these states good. They know that going outside the Federal and State requirements is a no-go.
States should remove the entire Rat party from all offices from the 2024 election and all elections afterwards. The Rat party WAS sited for insurrection. They started the Civil War. They implemented Jim Crow laws. They are the party of segregation. Specific individuals involved at the time are, obviously, not alive, but the entire party is the part of insurrection and responsible for the insurrection.
All monuments concerning these Rats are being systematically removed. It is past time that the entire party and all individuals involved be booted from ballot and held accountable. Even if they form a new party, all democrats at all levels should be permanently banned from office.
If taking the oath and then violating it is grounds, there would be ‘net zero’ people in CONgress.
These liberal idiots better hope, pray, and vote that Trump gets back into the White House or the country will be totally gone...
hey MSM - you gotta play by your own rules.
and claims, without evidence, that Trump encouraged and supported
These people WANT to escalate the situation into a real civil war.
Who the f*** do these little commissars think they are? The time is rapidly approaching where ropes and lampposts are going to be the solution.
A similar five person petition better be sent to kick Biden off. Open Border Insurrection.
And further, they must be terrified of him to resort to this. Which is all he more reason to vote for him!
It is time, every red state needs to do the same against Biden in mass, and there is no time to waste. Why? Because if SCOTUS is hit with a mass problem from BOTH sides and it includes the possibility of Biden being targeted they will have to rule against the states on this matter. ALL states...
The right to remove disabilities imposed by this Section was exercised by Congress at different times on behalf of enumerated individuals.1 In 1872, the disabilities were removed, by a blanket act, from all persons "except Senators and Representatives of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States."2 Twenty-six years later, Congress enacted that "the disability imposed by section 3 . . . incurred heretofore, is hereby removed."
Election board is now telling the people of a state who they are allow to vote for. There needs to be an awakening on a grand sale
There is always write-in candidates.
The GOP is nothing but a democrat in costume.
Governor Jelly Belly wants to run for president too. He tried to buy obama’s vacant senate seat but wasn’t prosecuted. The last governor election here was a sham, he as declared the winner 8 minutes after the election ended with zero results turned in. It’s the Chicago way. The state is done for.
Elections will never be held in 2024.
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