Judge rejects request for hold on challenge to Donald Trump’s place on Illinois primary ballot

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge on Wednesday rejected a request to put a hold on a legal challenge to former President Donald Trump’s place on the Illinois’ March 19 Republican primary ballot. Attorneys for the former president had filed a motion to halt legal proceedings in Illinois until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on an appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court decision that found Trump disqualified from running for the presidency in that state under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The nation’s highest court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the Colorado...