States with challenges to Trump’s candidacy
Trump disqualified, choice appealed
Problem dismissed or rejected
Alaska
Ariz.
Calif.
Colo.
Conn.
Del.
Fla.
Idaho
Kan.
La.
Maine
Mass.
Mich.
Minn.
Mont.
Nev.
N.H.
N.J.
N.M.
N.Y.
N.C.
Okla.
Ore.
Pa.
R.I.
S.C.
Texas
Utah
Vt.
Va.
W.Va.
Wis.
Wyo.
Formal challenges to Donald J. Trump’s presidential candidacy have been filed in no less than 33 states, in response to a New York Occasions evaluation of courtroom information and different paperwork. Mr. Trump was disqualified from the first poll in Colorado and Maine pending appeals, however many different challenges have been dismissed or haven’t progressed in courtroom. Past Colorado and Maine no less than 17 states have unresolved challenges.
The poll challenges deal with whether or not Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat make him ineligible to carry the presidency once more. These circumstances are based mostly on an obscure and largely untested clause of a constitutional modification enacted after the Civil Struggle that disqualifies authorities officers who “engaged in rebellion or revolt” from holding workplace.
The Colorado Supreme Courtroom and Maine’s secretary of state, a Democrat, each discovered Mr. Trump ineligible below that provision. Mr. Trump, who’s main in Republican major polls, can enchantment these selections. His marketing campaign has described the makes an attempt to take away him from the poll as unconstitutional and antidemocratic.
A number of judges have dismissed circumstances on the request of Mr. Trump or the request of the one who filed the problem. The Michigan and Minnesota Supreme Courts have each mentioned Mr. Trump is eligible to seem on the first poll in these states.
Standing of challenges in every state
California
Choice pending
Colorado
Trump disqualified, choice appealed
Connecticut
Problem dismissed or rejected
Delaware
Problem dismissed or rejected
Idaho
Problem dismissed or rejected
Kansas
Problem dismissed or rejected
Louisiana
Choice pending
Maine
Trump disqualified, choice appealed
Massachusetts
Problem dismissed or rejected
Michigan
Problem dismissed or rejected
Minnesota
Problem dismissed or rejected
Montana
Problem dismissed or rejected
New Hampshire
Choice pending
New Jersey
Problem dismissed or rejected
New Mexico
Choice pending
New York
Choice pending
North Carolina
Choice pending
Oklahoma
Problem dismissed or rejected
Pennsylvania
Problem dismissed or rejected
Rhode Island
Problem dismissed or rejected
South Carolina
Choice pending
Utah
Problem dismissed or rejected
Virginia
Problem dismissed or rejected
West Virginia
Choice pending
Wisconsin
Choice pending