Chicago-based Judge Tracie Porter, an elected Democrat, ruled that Trump was not qualified for the presidency under an interpretation of a provision of the 14th Amendment that bars from office those who engaged in an insurrection after previously taking an oath to support the Constitution.
The Illinois decision on Wednesday overturns the decision of the bipartisan state board of elections, which voted last month to keep Trump on the ballot because it said it lacked the authority to make constitutional determinations.
Constitutional scholar Tracie Porter however determined otherwise.
Porter, the judge, chided the state board for not making any “factual determinations regarding the events” of Jan. 6. Members of the board made clear that “they wanted to get as far away from this case as possible, likely given its notoriety,” she wrote.
Judge Porter’s prestigious background in constitutional law includes having “studied fashion design at the former Art Institute of North Hollywood, CA.”
Also the Cook County Bar Association.
I’m not sure which is less prestigious, but her original background appeared to be in real estate law.
But who needs the law, when you have eminently qualified Cook County hatchet men and women deciding who the president should be based on which party they’re a member of.