Trump Wins Case with State Election Board

heading into the 2024 election there's a national phenomena that you should really know about up on your screen right now is a map of the United States and highlighted are all of the states where lawsuits have been filed in order to kick president Trump off of the ballot in that particular State now the arguments for all these different lawsuits differ but they all predominantly revolve around the same central idea that since president Trump quote unquote engaged in an Insurrection on January 6th he should therefore be disqualified from holding office as per the 14th Amendment now going back to the map you can see that the states in dark orange are those with the effort to get president Trump disqualified have been dismissed this usually involves the case going all the way up to that state supreme court and then subsequently getting rejected then the states in purple are those where Trump actually wound up getting disqualify from the ballot although in both of those two states in both Colorado and Maine the case is currently being appealed by Trump's legal Team all the way up to the US Supreme Court and that the remaining States the ones in yellow are those where the legal disqualification challenges remain unresolved meaning in those States they're still being worked through the actual legal channels through the court system however as of today we can officially cross Illinois off of that list given the fact that just yesterday president Trump scored a victory with the state election board there specifically what happened over in Illinois is that on January 4th of this year a leftwing organization called free speech for people they filed a petition with a state election board urging them to drop president Trump's name off of the ballot their legal theory was that quote president Trump is disqualified from running for office because the events of January 6 2021 constituted an Insurrection as described in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and by the way just for your general reference this is the very same group that actually proved successful at removing Trump's name off of the ballot over in the state of Colorado now for their part lawyers for president Trump they made the counterargument telling the Illinois state election board that quote he did not engage in Insurrection and that the board has no jurisdiction to rule on Insurrection now during this hearing former Illinois judge Clark Erikson served as the hearing officer as the two sides were presenting their oral arguments and after hearing both sides judge Ericson issued a 21-page recommendation you can see it up on your screen to the election board urging them to go ahead and Grant president Trump's motion to dismiss the case although this is where things in his recommendation got a bit you can say strange quote Mr Ericson had recommended that the board Grant president Trump's motion to dismiss the case but he also determined that January 6th constituted an Insurrection and he recommended that the board remove president Trump on that basis if they did not Grant the motion to dismiss given that the board is not obligated to follow the general council's recommendation Mr Ericson then outlined why he believed president Trump should be removed if the challenge is assessed on its merits whether he is disqualified for engaging an Insurrection under Section 3 largely echoing the Colorado trial Court's rationale meaning in plain English that after the actual hearing after the legal teams for both president Trump and this leftwing organization gave their oral arguments the former judge overseeing the case he gave His official recommendation to the state election board saying that the best thing that they can do is to dismiss this case alog together however he also made a point to mention that if the election board chooses to not just outright dismiss the case and to instead to judge the case based on its legal merits then at least in his opinion president Trump should be disqualified from the ballot as per the 14th Amendment that's because in the opinion of this judge what took place on January 6th was an Insurrection and according to him president Trump did engage in it and one really interesting thing to note here is that you might remember how on January 6th during the actual Riot president Trump issued two messages on social media calling for people to be peaceful and to leave the capital and go home however in this 21 page document which kind of gives us a glimpse into the thinking of this judge he dismissed this call for peace as being nothing more than a smoke screen here's specifically what he wrote quote I determin that these calls to peace via social media coming after an inflammatory tweet are the product of President Trump trying to give himself plausible deniability perhaps he realized just how far he had gone and that the effort to steal the election had failed because vice president Pence had refused to accept the bag of fraudulent electors it was time to retreat with a final tweet telling the nation that he loved those who had assembled and attacked the capital and so despite what president Trump actually said this judge claims to know what was in president Trump's actual mind and so that was the opinion of the judge and the recommendation that he gave to the state election board was again to dismiss the case or if you judge it on its merits to disqualify president Trump you then fast forward four days and on Tuesday of this week the Illinois State Board of Elections they held their actual meeting to vote on whether or not to include Trump on the ballot you can see video of the meeting since the entire thing was recorded and just for your reference the state election board in Illinois is a bipartisan group with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats sitting there there at the table and after getting together the State Board voted unanimously to dismiss the challenge against President Trump and in terms of why well board member Jack vett he said the following in a statement quote hard cases make bad law if we exceeded our Authority and looked at the underlying of conduct I think what we would see would be an opening of floodgates of litigation for example every Schoolboard candidate could then challenge their Rivals over alleged criminal conduct and require election boards to investigate the relief that partitioners are seeking is one of ballot for for sure and they had not met that threshold likewise you had board member Christina cray make a statement as well making a point to specifically mention that she herself was a republican but added that quote there's no doubt in my mind that President Trump engaged in an Insurrection however the board does not have the jurisdiction to rule un such an issue and so there you have it another challenge to get president Trump off of the ballot is scrapped now in terms of the next steps this is where things you can say get interesting because this particular decision by the Illinois state election board it can be appealed to state Court however in almost exactly one week on Thursday of next week the US Supreme Court is set to come out and rule on the matter for the entire country specifically if you look at the schedule for the Supreme Court and you look at next Thursday which is February the 8th you'll see that besides hearing the oral argument in the Trump versus Colorado case the note indicates that the US Supreme Court is intending to announce their written opinion on that very same day quote while the substance of the opinions has not been revealed the Declaration that they will be published on February 8th is significant as it indicates that the supreme court views the case as having significant legal importance and warrants expedited consideration meaning that by Thursday of next week which is just a week and one day from today this map right here might become totally irrelevant as whatever the US Supreme Court decides will wind up being the law of the land in all 50 states we'll just have to wait and see what they ultimately decide regarding Trump's inclusion on the ballot until then if you'd like to read the details of this case out in Illinois I'll throw all my reference notes they'll be down in the description box below this video if you're the type of person that likes to dig into the weeds and I should quickly mention that it's that same description box right below those like And subscribe buttons both of which I hope you take a super quick moment to smash so that this information can reach ever more people via the YouTube algorithm and now let me quickly introduce today's sponsor by showing you this little piece of money or rather I should say that this is fake money being printed into Oblivion by those Geniuses over in Washington DC and so before they completely obliterate your life savings what I recommend you do is to convert that fake money into real money which is physical gold and silver 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