A judge in Illinois has removed former President Trump from the state’s ballot, citing the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause making the Prairie State the third to attempt to boot Trump from the ballot.
Judge Tracie Porter in Cook County, Ill., issued her lengthy ruling Wednesday, ordering the state election board to remove the former president from Illinois’s March 19 primary ballot.
The decision is paused until March 1 to allow Trump’s legal team to appeal the decision in Illinois state courts, per the ruling shared with The Hill.
Porter’s ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a similar challenge to Trump’s ballot eligibility after the Colorado Supreme Court similarly invoked the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause to kick the former president off the ballot.
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