Bill Barr: Efforts to Remove Trump From Ballot Are ‘Destructive of Our Political Order’

Published on January 3, 2024

Former Attorney General Bill Barr opposed Democrats’ ongoing legal attempts to remove former President Donald Trump from the state ballots in multiple states nationwide. “I am firmly opposed to Trump’s candidacy,” Mr. Barr said. “But I also believe that the efforts to knock him off the ballot are legally untenable, politically counterproductive, and, most ominously, destructive of our political order.” “The Supreme Court needs to act swiftly to strike down these foolish decisions,” he added. Mr. Barr raised concerns over efforts to disqualify his former boss from the 2024 White House race in an op-ed published in The Free Press on Jan. 2 as the states of Colorado and Maine had decided to remove President Trump from state primary ballots. Despite these attempts, President Trump’s legal teams have managed to reinstate his name in those states....