Chalmette woman files suit seeking to remove Trump from Louisiana ballot

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49% : We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach.
44% : A Chalmette woman has filed a petition objecting to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump and seeking an injunction to disqualify him from the Louisiana primary ballot next March.
38% : That provision states: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrections or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."Related coverageMichigan Supreme Court will not hear appeal in Trump case, allowing him to appear on primary ballotColorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state's ballot under Constitution's insurrection clausePolice investigating incidents involving Colorado justices after Trump removed from state's ballotA similar challenge to Trump's eligibility, citing the same Constitutional argument, recently succeeded in Colorado.
29% : Ashley Reeb filed the lawsuit against outgoing Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, asking that Ardoin be compelled to disqualify Trump from the state's ballot because of the former president's role in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
27% : Meanwhile, the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday (Dec. 27) rejected a similar effort to remove Trump from the ballot in that state.
26% : That state's Supreme Court on Dec. 19 removed Trump from the ballot on a 4-3 vote from its justices, who wrote, "We do not reach these conclusions lightly.
22% : As the petitioner, Reeb asserts that Trump should be disqualified from seeking a second term in the White House, based upon Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

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