Illinois judge rules Donald Trump is disqualified from the state's 2024 election ballot

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Illinois judge rules Donald Trump is disqualified from the state's 2024 election ballot
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What would the argument be for eliminating Biden though? Biden hasn't committed insurrection. Trump has.

They don't need facts. They'll say failing to secure the border is equivalent to an insurrection, or some such bullshit

The point is, I think, to try and falsely equivocate the two things so they appear similar enough that people won't raise too big of a fuss if Biden is removed for illegitimate reasons, because they somehow believe the same thing happened with trump.

It might be prudent to require an actual conviction of one of a specific lists of crimes, but that leaves Trump in for a bit longer

I don’t know what grounds they used but I don’t think Trump has been convicted yet