Oregon Supreme Court Punts Trump Ballot Question To U.S. Supreme Court
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The group representing the Oregon voters said it was disappointed in the court's "decision not to decide."
The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a case that could have kept Donald Trump off the state’s ballots in 2024, citing a pending U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the matter.
Five Oregon voters are seeking to disqualify the former president based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars from state or federal office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the nation after having sworn an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
The group initially asked Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade to strike Trump from Oregon’s primary and general-election ballots. After she declined, arguing that state law didn’t grant her that authority, the voters appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court.
In a 4-3 decision last month, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol met the 14th Amendment threshold, barring him from the ballot there.
One week later, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows reached a similar conclusion.
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