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Supreme Court ruling to keep Trump on 2024 ballot goes ‘well beyond’ 14th Amendment case 

Former President Donald Trump will remain on all 2024 presidential primary ballots following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling. Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross told theGrio that this decision “was expected” and that the court did the right thing. “If the court ruled any other way, what would have happened is patchwork,” she explained. “States would have decided maybe they would include Trump on the ballot, maybe they wouldn’t.” On the other hand, she added that states would have had the authority […]

todayMarch 4, 2024 1

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Missouri GOP seeks to axe man with ties to KKK from party ballot

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Republican Party on Thursday denounced a GOP candidate for governor with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, saying party officials will go to court if necessary to remove him from the ticket. Southwestern Missouri man Darrell Leon McClanahan, who has described himself as “pro-white,” was among nearly 280 Republican candidates who on Tuesday officially filed to run for office. He is a longshot candidate for governor and faces a primary against Secretary of […]

todayMarch 4, 2024

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U.S. Supreme Court justices could rule in favor of Trump in Colorado presidential primary ballot case

The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court may rule to keep former President Donald Trump’s name on the Colorado 2024 presidential primary ballot. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., told theGrio that he is not “surprised that the Supreme Court would support the former president’s position and not remove him from the ballot.” At the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., justices heard arguments this week on Colorado’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from this year’s presidential primary ballot. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty […]

todayFebruary 9, 2024 4

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Watch: Can states bar Trump from 2024 presidential ballot?

On this week’s edition of “The Hill with April Ryan,” theGrio’s Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent, April D. Ryan, looks at the legal debate before the Supreme Court on whether former President Donald Trump should be barred from the 2024 presidential ballot under the 14th Amendment. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a former member of Congress, tells theGrio that kicking Trump off the ballot is the wrong thing to do. She argued that Democrats should instead beat him […]

todayFebruary 9, 2024 1

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Biden isn’t on the New Hampshire ballot after prioritizing Black voters

As New Hampshire residents prepare to vote in Tuesday’s primary election, some may wonder why President Joe Biden’s name will not be on the ballot. The absence of the Biden-Harris ticket is a result of a standoff between the Democratic National Committee and New Hampshire officials after the national party moved to designate South Carolina as the first primary state for the Democratic presidential contest.  New Hampshire previously held the first-in-the-nation primary for over a century, even solidifying its status […]

todayJanuary 23, 2024 4

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Clarence Thomas called to recuse himself from Trump 2024 ballot case

Activists and members of the U.S. Congress are calling on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a case that will decide whether former President Donald Trump should be removed from Colorado’s voting ballot before the 2024 primary election. They argue that Thomas’ wife Ginni Thomas’ reported ties to Trump disqualify the Supreme Court justice from weighing in on the current litigation over the former president and his eligibility to be on the ballot due to his […]

todayJanuary 10, 2024 1

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Maine bars Trump from ballot as US Supreme Court weighs states’ authority to block former president

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Trump remains eligible to return to the White House. The decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows follows a ruling earlier this month by the Colorado Supreme Court that booted Trump from the ballot […]

todayDecember 30, 2023 1

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Donald Trump banned from Colorado ballot in historic ruling by state’s Supreme Court

DENVER (AP) — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race. The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors marks the first time in history that Section […]

todayDecember 20, 2023 2

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