New Hampshire’s top election official says he will not invoke the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot. New Hampshire will hold the first Republican presidential primary next year.
New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State Patricia Lovejoy, left, looks on as Secretary of State David Scanlan explains that he will not use an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot in the state that will hold the first Republican presidential primary next year, at the Statehouse, in Concord, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.
“As long as he submits his declaration of candidacy and signs it under the penalties of perjury and pays the $1,000 filing fee, his name will appear on the presidential primary ballot," Secretary of State David Scanlan said in a press conference he called to address various legal efforts to bar Trump from the 2024 race.
“That language is not discretionary,” said Scanlan, a Republican elected by the Legislature with bipartisan support in 2022 after serving two decades as deputy secretary of state.that Trump is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely-used clause in the 14th Amendment, which prohibits those who “engaged in an insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution from holding higher office.
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