A group of Minnesota voters have filed a lawsuit seeking to disqualify Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot.
In a statement to PoliticusUSA, the nonpartisan legal advocacy group Free Speech For People detailed the Minnesota lawsuit:
Free Speech For People today filed a legal challenge on behalf of a diverse group of Minnesota voters seeking to ban Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 presidential ballot. The petition argues that Trump is disqualified from holding public office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, also known as the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, for his role in inciting and facilitating the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, introduced in the aftermath of the Civil War, disqualifies any individual who takes an oath to uphold the United States Constitution but then engages in insurrection or rebellion against the United States or provides aid or comfort to its enemies . . No prior criminal conviction is required. Trump’s involvement in the violent attack on Congress to prevent the certification of election results, which resulted in the disruption of the peaceful transition of power for the first time in our country’s history, disqualifies him from holding any future public office. State election officials do not need congressional approval to enforce the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause, just as they do not need congressional approval to enforce the U.S. Constitution generally.
The question to be answered by the courts is whether voters have legal standing to have a candidate disqualified Or should the lawsuit come from a Secretary of State or another candidate? Legal experts agree that another candidate would have the strongest legal standing, but Many liberal and conservative constitutional scholars believe that Donald Trump has already been disqualified of the 2024 ballot.
Lawsuits seeking to disqualify Trump are popping up all over the country, and it may only take one ruling to get Trump off the ballot and set the dominoes falling across the country.