Here’s How Trump Could Be Kept Off Several Presidential Ballots In 2024

Photo: Gage Skidmore, flickr& A 55-year-old ruling involving a former Black Panther leader could keep Donald Trump off several state ballots in the 2024 presidential election, Newsweek reports.In Colorado, a district court judge ruled that Trump “engaged in insurrection,” violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The clause prohibits individuals from “hold(ing) any office, civil or military, under the United States” if they have “previously taken an oath … as an officer of the United States” to “support the Constitution” and then engaged in insurrection or rebellion.The clause might be exercised against Trump as he is facing criminal charges in connection to the insurrection of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Colorado Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether to keep Trump off the state ballot in 2024 because of the lower court ruling.Derek T. Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, cited the case of Elridge Cleaver, a former Black Panther leader who ran for president in 1968 but was excluded from California’s ballot because he didn’t reach the minimum age requirement to hold the nation’s highest office. “Cleaver was the 33-year-old nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party. He challenged the exclusion...