A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit to keep Donald Trump off the presidential ballot in Rhode Island.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. tossed the suit brought by John Anthony Castro, a write-in Republican presidential candidate, citing a similar ruling in the New Hampshire case by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.
The judge ruled Castro, from Texas, lacked standing in the case.
“The appellate court found that Castro failed to prove he is a ‘direct and current competitor at the time he filed his complaint,’” The Messenger reports.
Castro could not establish that he would suffer an injury if Trump remained on the ballot.
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The Messenger reports:
Castro had advanced a 14th Amendment-based argument, claiming that Trump should be banned from appearing on the ballot because his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol and said that attempts to overturn the 2020 election made Trump an insurrectionist. A post-Civil War addition to the Constitution, the 14th…
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