Former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said Friday that the U.S. Supreme Courtis “likely” to allow Donald Trump to be removed from state ballots ahead of the 2024 election.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, faces legal challenges that seek to remove him from the ballot in several states, with two having already barred his name from primary voters’ consideration. The lawsuits argue that Trump is ineligible to run under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars officials who have sworn an oath to the U.S. Constitution from holding office if they engage in insurrection. Trump is facing federal charges in connection to his alleged actions leading up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, which followed after he addressed his supporters during a rally on Capitol Hill. The former president has been kicked off ballots in Maine and Colorado because of the same constitutional amendment.
