The Oregon Supreme Court declined on Friday to take up a challenge seeking to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary and general election ballots.
The challenge to Trump’s ballot eligibility was brought by five Oregon voters who want the former president disqualified from the ballot, citing the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Fox 12 reported.
“Today’s decision in Oregon was the correct one,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. “President Trump urges the swift dismissal of all remaining, bad-faith, election interference 14th Amendment ballot challenges.”
The attempt to disqualify Trump in Oregon came amid a bevy of ballot challenges facing his campaign, including the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision last month to take the former president off the ballot. Trump quickly appealed…