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The legal fight to keep Donald Trump off the ballot
Three states are trying to stop Trump from running next year by holding him responsible for an 'insurrection against the state' — which would run contrary to the US constitution, reports MARK GRUENBERG

WHEN he was president, Donald Trump stacked the Supreme Court and the federal courts with right-wing lawyers screened and put forward by the extreme-right Federalist Society.

That approach, top Trump operatives have decided, is not going to be enough to satisfy Trumpites if their master wins the 2024 election.

The press has reported that exchanges between Stephen Miller, who designed the programme that ripped apart immigrant families, and other top Trump movers and shakers stipulate that in a second Trump administration, right-wing lawyers alone will not do the trick. What they need is lawyers willing to toss out the US constitution entirely.

Based on the constitution

Facing many other trials

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