It has been revealed that the Illinois judge who went against previous state rulings to yank Donald Trump off the state\u2019s primary ballots has little background in complicated election laws or the Constitution and was a mere traffic judge before she issued her ruling.<\/p>\n

Late last month, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Tracie R. Porter decided<\/a> in all her legal wisdom to ban Donald Trump from the Illinois primary ballot because he is supposedly an \u201cinsurrectionist\u201d under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, even though he has neither been convicted nor even charged with such a crime.<\/p>\n

Porter issued her ruling in the judicial review of a case<\/a> brought by five activists \u2014 Steven Anderson, Charles Holley, Jack Hickman, Ralph Cintron and Darryl Baker \u2014 who objected to Trump\u2019s name being on the state\u2019s ballot. The five men are members of the left-wing activist group Free Speech for People, which filed the same complaint in Michigan. Officials there ruled against<\/a> removing Trump from the ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Illinois State Board of Election shall remove Donald J. Trump from the ballot for the General Primary Election on March 19, 2024, or cause any votes cast for him to be suppressed, according to the procedures within their administrative authority,\u201d Porter wrote in her \u201cruling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter made this nakedly self-promoting move even after her own state\u2019s election board ruled<\/a> that moves to bar Trump from state ballots were improper.<\/p>\n

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Cook County Judge Tracie Porter declares Trump an insurrectionist and takes him off the Illinois ballot. No time for a trial when saving democracy is at stake! LOL pic.twitter.com\/fXgDch5m1Q<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Mark Mendlovitz (@MendlovitzMark) February 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Back at the end of January, the Illinois State Board of Election unanimously ruled<\/a> that Trump would remain on the Land of Lincoln\u2019s ballots for 2024.<\/p>\n
In its 8-0 vote, the board rejected an attempt by a far-left activist group to dump Trump from the ballot on the grounds that he is ineligible because he was involved in an \u201cinsurrection\u201d against the government on Jan. 6, 2021, ABC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n
This was not good enough, as far as Porter was concerned.<\/p>\n
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Is Trump being unfairly targeted in the judicial system?<\/p>\n
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Yet, even though she made her self-aggrandizing move, she also stayed her own ruling before even issuing it because she knew that the U.S. Supreme Court was taking up the eligibility issue and their decision would determine Trump\u2019s actual eligibility, not hers.<\/p>\n
The Trump campaign launched an appeal of Porter\u2019s issuance, despite the stays.<\/p>\n
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told Axios<\/a> that they would \u201cquickly appeal\u201d what he described as an \u201cunconstitutional ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, an activist Democrat judge in Illinois summarily overruled the state\u2019s board of elections and contradicted earlier decisions from dozens of other state and federal jurisdictions,\u201d Cheung said.<\/p>\n
But now Forbes magazine<\/a> has taken a look at Porter\u2019s past experience in law and on the bench and it shows a decided lack of any real experience in either election or constitutional law.<\/p>\n
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Not only was her bachelor\u2019s degree earned in international business \u2014 not the law \u2014 but after earning a law degree, she spent four years as a litigation attorney with the Department of Labor, worked in private practice and academia, and was then appointed to traffic court in 2021. Apparently, her chief qualification to pronounce on constitutional and election law is that she won an election in 2022 to a seat on the circuit court in deep-blue Cook County.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Porter even admitted that she is an activist and not really all that interested in the law. When she ran for the bench, she issued a statement saying, \u201cMy motto is impacting lives and changing communities and that is how I will approach this new position.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regardless of what Porter thinks, the U.S. Supreme Court is actually the court that will settle the issue<\/a> when it reveals its ruling in Anderson v. Griswold<\/i>, a case that will determine whether Trump \u201cincited\u201d any \u201cinsurrections\u201d or not.<\/p>\n
It seems fairly clear that Porter is just trying to get her name in the news, because it is obvious that she has no training or experience to guide her in a legal ruling to determine Trump\u2019s eligibility to run for office on constitutional grounds.<\/p>\n\n
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