News has collated the top political and legal strategies that detractors, mostly on the right, have criticized as attempts by the Democratic Party to weaken democracy as the high-stakes election approaches its final weeks. Election day is November 5.
Democrats tried to strike Trump’s name from primary ballots before the Republican Party formally picked him as its presidential nominee in states like Colorado, California, Illinois, and others.
A group of voters in Colorado filed a lawsuit last year, claiming that Trump’s name needs to be removed from the ballot for 2024 because he should be declared illegal to hold political office under an insurrection clause dating back to the American Civil War. The group claimed that Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, when a few of his supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol, violated a 14th Amendment provision that bars officers of the United States, members of Congress, and state legislatures from holding political office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution.
In the end, the Colorado case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided unanimously to support Trump’s contention that he ought to be allowed to run for office in the state.
