State Poll Execs Prepare To Oust Trump In 2024 Race

Efforts to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment are gaining momentum, as election officials in key states prepare for or respond to legal challenges to Trump's candidacy, as reported by Isabella Murray and Hannah Demissie for NBC News.

The argument to disqualify Trump from appearing on primary or general election ballots in 2024 boils down to Section 3 of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment. I Photo: Sheelah Craighead I Trump White House Archived Flickr

The argument to disqualify Trump from appearing on primary or general election ballots in 2024 hinges on Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, which states that an elected official is ineligible to assume public office if they "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the U.S. or provided "aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," unless granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress.

Several advocacy groups assert that Trump's actions on January 6, 2021, meet these criteria, suggesting that he directly participated in an insurrection.

The push to disqualify Trump under this clause gained traction when Federalist Society members William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen supported the idea in a lengthy essay published in the Pennsylvania Law Review.

Retired conservative federal appeals judge J. Michael Luttig and Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe made the same argument in The Atlantic.

In an interview with ABC News, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, mentioned that she and other secretaries of state from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Maine began discussing preparations for the legal challenges to Trump's candidacy over a year ago.

"I talk every day with colleagues about this; we all recognize that the decisions we make may, in some cases, be the first but won't be the last. There may be multiple decision points throughout the course of the election cycle," Benson said.

"So, I think the public needs to be prepared for this to be an ongoing issue with several resolution and evolution points throughout the cycle."

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