A legal filing claims Donald Trump is ineligible to be president, and that allowing him to run in the GOP primary election would be unfair to North Carolina Republicans since if they vote for Trump in the primary they could be wasting their chance to vote for an eligible candidate.
North Carolina courts could soon decide whether to ban former President Donald Trump from appearing on ballots in the 2024 elections due to a new legal filing Friday in Wake County Superior Court.
State elections officials approved Trump’s name for the Republican Party primary earlier this month, denying a challenge filed by a voter who claimed Trump is ineligible to serve as president again due to the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding federal office. The election board’s vote to keep Trump on the ballot was 4-1, with both Republican members and two of the three Democratic members voting to deny the challenge.
But that decision from the elections board was appealed on Friday, setting the stage for state courts to take up the question — as other states have recently begun doing.
Friday’s appeal argues that it’s unfair to GOP voters in North Carolina to allow Trump to take part in the primary. Specifically, it says, Trump supporters will have been deprived of their right to back a different candidate who’s actually eligible to serve as president.
« The voters in the Republican primary on March 5, 2024, have a right to choose from constitutionally eligible candidates, » the legal filing says.
