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2024 US Presidential Elections: Illinois became the third state where former President Donald Trump was barred from the ballot after a decision by a county judge on Wednesday..
Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie Porter removed Trump from the ballot, based on the 14th Amendment, which bars people from returning to office if they took an oath to support the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection, Bloomberg reported..
Today, an activist Democrat judge in Illinois summarily overruled the states board of elections and contradicted earlier decisions from dozens of other state and federal jurisdictions..
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