14th Amendment challenges grow over Trump's qualification for office; campaign calls it 'absurd'
Legal challenges are mounting against Trump seeking to remove him from the 2024 election because of the 14th Amendment; he and his campaign have dismissed the suits A group of Minnesota voters on Tuesday morning filed a legal challenge asking the state Supreme Court to direct the secretary of state to exclude Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024, citing the argument that the former president is disqualified from public office because of the 14th Amendment and the push to overturn the 2020 election results. While that theory is increasingly being embraced by advocates and critics of Trump, he has rejected it outright and his campaign calls it "election interference." Some other leading Republicans have also played down the viability of such an argument. Trump denies all wrongdoing. Tuesday's suit becomes the second major legal filing in the past couple of weeks as part of efforts to try to keep Trump off the ballot in next year's presidential race under Section 3 ...