Fresh off a stunning 15 percent tally in last week’s Indiana Republican primary, Ms. Haley receives tens of thousands of votes in West Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday night.
‘This is a major threat to Trump’s candidacy,’ a Notre Dame law professor says.
Another setback for efforts to torpedo the 45th president’s re-election bid by using the 14th Amendment’s ‘Disqualification Clause,’ even as the question looks likely to be ultimately settled by the Supreme Court.
Abortion rights supporters win an Ohio ballot measure and the Democratic governor of beet-red Kentucky holds onto his office by campaigning on reproductive rights and painting his opponent as extremist.
The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took an oath to uphold the Constitution but then ‘engaged’ in ‘insurrection or rebellion’ against it. A growing number of legal scholars say the post-Civil War clause applies to the 45th president.
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