Wisconsin officials shut down effort to kick Trump off ballot

Wisconsin election officers have declined to assessment a grievance making an attempt to take away former President Trump from the state’s main poll, citing the 14th Modification.

Madison, Wis., brewery proprietor Kirk Bangstad filed a grievance with the Wisconsin Elections Fee on Thursday, claiming Trump needs to be faraway from the poll as a result of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The fee stated the grievance was thrown out for procedural causes, and it lists members of the fee itself as respondents.

“The grievance was disposed of with out consideration by the Fee,” spokesperson Riley Vetterkind stated in a Thursday assertion to the media. “It’s the place of the Fee {that a} grievance towards the Fee, towards Commissioners of their official capacities, or towards Fee employees, warrants an moral recusal by the physique.”

Bangstad’s grievance depends on the identical arguments as removing efforts in Colorado and Maine, which have been accepted, pending authorized appeals.

The 14th Modification bars those that “have interaction in rebellion” from holding workplace. The Maine Secretary of State and the Colorado Supreme Courtroom discovered that Trump’s Jan. 6 conduct fell beneath that definition.

The Hill has reached out to the election fee and Bangstad for added remark.

Different states have additionally rejected related 14th Modification claims. On Wednesday, a Michigan court docket dominated that its Secretary of State doesn’t have the authority to find out the eligibility of candidates utilizing the “rebellion clause” of the modification.

Trump’s marketing campaign denounced the Maine resolution Thursday as “election interference.”

“We’re witnessing, in real-time, the tried theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated. “Make no mistake, these partisan election interference efforts are a hostile assault on American democracy.”