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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......

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Board of Elections on Tuesday granted former President Donald Trump a spot on the state’s GOP presidential primary ballot, allowing him access two days before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a mammoth case determining his ballot eligibility nationwide. The two Republican commissioners on the state Board of Elections approved Trump’s ballot line in a brief meeting at the board’s Albany offices. The bipartisan board has four members, but its two Republicans have control over eligibility decisions for GOP presidential candidates. The Republicans on the boa......

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a surprising victory to transgender youth Tuesday after declining to review an appeal from a central Indiana public school district over bathroom rights for trans students. By refusing to take up the case, the nation’s top court left in place a lower court ruling requiring the district to treat transgender students equally. The case involves a trans teen, identified in court papers as A.C., who attended a middle school in Martinsville, about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis. The 2021 lawsuit — filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of A......

Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday said the U.S. Supreme Court needs to quickly decide whether former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from serving as president, as Republicans in Missouri have pushed for political retribution against President Joe Biden. Hawley, a Missouri Republican who served as a clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts in 2007 and 2008, said he would be “shocked” if the Supreme Court did not overturn rulings by the Colorado Supreme Court and Maine Secretary of State that deemed Trump ineligible for office under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment ......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican candidates for governor, eager to win over voters in a party that remains largely in the grip of former President Donald Trump, have begun laying the groundwork to take political retribution against President Joe Biden if the U.S. Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from again serving as president. If the Supreme Court blocks Trump from the presidency by finding he engaged in insurrection in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Missouri candidates claim Biden could — or should — be disqualified as well. The 14th Amendment prohibits p......

LANSING, Mich. — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a court in Michigan to ensure the Republican's name will appear on the state's ballots next year as ongoing lawsuits attempt to block him. The suit, which was dated Monday and listed Trump as the plaintiff, says the Michigan Court of Claims should issue a judgment stating that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has "no authority to refuse to place President Trump’s name on the ballot and enter an injunction stopping her from doing so." Benson, a Democrat, is the defendant in the case. Trump is seeking the GOP nomination to ch......