{"id":7859,"date":"2023-12-21T01:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2023-12-21T03:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T03:04:43","slug":"california-lt-governor-wants-to-explore-every-legal-option-to-remove-trump-from-primary-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7859","title":{"rendered":"California Lt. Governor Wants to \u201cExplore Every Legal Option\u201d to Remove Trump From Primary Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/eleni-kounalakis\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/eleni-kounalakis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MixCollage-20-Dec-2023-08-49-PM-9428.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Eleni Kounalakis\" title=\"Eleni Kounalakis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis urged state secretary Shirley Weber to \u201cexplore every legal option\u201d to remove former president Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot, claiming \u201cCalifornia must stand on the right side of history,\u201d and that \u201cthis is a dire matter that puts at stake the sanctity of our constitution and our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_caf624ba-9eee-11ee-a98d-2b7c8577ae79.html\">voted<\/a> 3-4 to block former President Donald Trump from receiving votes on the 2024 presidential primary ballot, saying he is disqualified because he \u201cengaged in an insurrection,\u201d a reference to his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol protests gone awry.<\/p>\n<p>Noting the list of certified candidates for the 2024 primary must be certified by December 28, the letter from Kounalakis cited the Colorado decision, which she says is \u201cabout honoring the rule of law in our country and protecting the fundamental pillars of our democracy,\u201d as the impetus for her call for Weber to act.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado decision does not take effect until Jan 4., giving the U.S. Supreme Court two weeks to intervene in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/eleni-kounalakis\/ California lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis urged state secretary Shirley&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}