A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s presence on the presidential ballot under the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.
Judge Robin Rosenberg on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging former President Donald Trump’s presence on the presidential ballot under the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment says public officials are not eligible to hold office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States. Rosenberg also added that “an individual citizen does not have standing to challenge whether another individualis qualified to hold public office.”
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