The former president had invoked what’s known as ananti-SLAPP law, which serves to dismiss frivolous claims targeting constitutional rights. As the state district judgerecounted in her opinion, the former president had arguedthat the challengers’ claims “all stem f...
Supreme Court as the court considers whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to run for president in the 2024 election, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images Show More Feb 09, 2024, 12:49 AM CST Justice Alito: 'Would we have to have ou...
The Constitution sets out the requirements for an individual to run for president in Article II, Section I. “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President...
Legally, Trump would remain eligible to be president even if he were imprisoned. The Constitution says nothing to the contrary. “I don’t think that the framers ever thought we were going to be in this situation,” Levinson said.In practice, the election of an incarcerated president would ...
Washington— When the nine members of theSupreme Courttake their seats on the bench on Thursday, they will be wading intouncharted legal watersto hear a case that could have sweeping ramifications for the 2024 presidential race. The dispute before the court involves whether former PresidentDonald ...
Nikki Haley has questioned whether Donald Trump is mentally capable of serving as president again, after he repeatedly seemed to confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on Colorado's Republican primary ballot because of his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In a 4-3 decision last month, th
The Supreme Court has expressed scepticism of Colorado's decision to disqualify Donald Trump from running for presidency. A landmark case that could decide whether the former president can run in November's election heard arguments from both sides of the case as Trump appeals the d...
He said he doesn’t know whether Rubio is eligible to run for president. “I’ve never looked at it, George,” Trump said. “I honestly have never looked at it. As somebody said, he’s not. And I retweeted it. I have 14 million people between Twitter and Facebook and Instagram,...
Trump went as far as to amplify a post from a far-right outlet falsely claiming Haley was not eligible to run for president and that her parents were not US citizens at the time of her birth. Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, was born in South Carolina and, if successful in th...