Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept Donald Trump on the state’s 2024 primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments on whether the former president’s role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from returning to the Oval Office. The eight-member bipartisan panel voted unanimously to dismiss an attempt to remove Trump from the ballot.
Dozens of 14th Amendment challenges to Trump’s eligibility have been considered by courts, election boards, or secretaries of state over the past year. The Colorado Supreme Court and Maine’s secretary of state have ruled that Trump is ineligible to appear on those two states’ primary ballots due to the amendment’s “insurrection clause.”
Catherine McCrory, a Republican on the Illinois Board of Elections, voted to keep Trump on the ballot, but she also attacked him over January 6.
“There is no doubt in my mind that he manipulated, instigated, aided and abetted an insurrection on January 6. However, having said that, it is not my place to rule on that today,” McCrory said.
An appeal of the Illinois vote is likely.
