GOP Lawmakers Push Bills to Slap Down States Booting Trump, Future Candidates from Ballot

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Republican lawmakers are pushing back against the undemocratic attempts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024.

Over the past two weeks, a Democratic secretary of state and a Democratic-appointed state Supreme Court have barred Trump from appearing on their state’s primary ballot in Maine and Colorado.

In both cases, the rulings have cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment that bans candidates from holding office if they have supported or participated in an “insurrection” against the government, something Democrats accuse Trump of having done.

Although these decisions will both be appealed and most likely overturned by the Supreme Court, Republicans in Congress are taking steps to ensure that no state can try to ban the former president from running.

North Carolina Sen. Tom Tillis has introduced a bill that would ban the provision of federal funds for the administration of any federal election where a legitimate candidate was prevented from running.

‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be used to administer any election for Federal office in a State that has in effect a law or policy to prohibit a candidate for the office of President who is otherwise eligible from appearing on the ballot for such office using section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” the bill states.

Writing on the social media platform X, Tillis described the decision in Maine as an “egregious abuse of power.”

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