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President Trump enjoyed a few triumphant moments this week in two different legal venues amidst the cacophony of courtroom battles that he is fighting.
Fourteenth Amendment challenges in both Oregon and New Mexico aimed at stripping Trump from the 2024 ballot were dismissed, prompting the president’s campaign to do a victory lap.
According to The New York Times, the Oregon Supreme Court dismissed a Fourteenth Amendment challenge attempting to argue that Trump was ineligible to appear on the 2024 ballot on Friday.
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an official statement, “Today’s decision in Oregon was the correct one. President Trump urges the swift dismissal of all remaining, bad-faith election interference 14th Amendment challenges as they are un-Constitutional attempts by allies of Crooked Joe Biden to disenfranchise millions of American voters and deny them their right to vote for the candidate of their choice.”
Yet another Fourteenth Amendment challenge was dismissed in New Mexico, joining the chorus of the many legal challenges that have been kicked out of the courtroom.
Per KRQE, U.S. District Judge Matthew Garcia dismissed the case for lack of evidence on the part of the plaintiff, John Anthony Castro. For reference, Castro was just indicted and then arrested on 33 counts “of aiding the preparation of false tax returns,” per The Hill.
Castro was supposedly a 2024 GOP presidential candidate. The Hill pointed out that he had filed legal challenges against Trump in 27 states based on the Fourteenth Amendment.
Trump spokesperson Cheung added in a second statement on the New Mexico decision, “President Trump remains undefeated against bogus 14th Amendment claims in federal court, with today’s dismissal in New Mexico being the latest victory against these attacks on Democracy. Similar cases in over a dozen other states have now been dismissed, as fair-ruling courts have seen through the Democrat election interference schemes.”