Tracking state efforts to remove Trump from 2024 election

Formal challenges to Donald J. Trump’s presidential candidacy have been filed in at least 33 states, according to a New York Times review of court records and other documents. Trump was disqualified from primaries in Colorado and Maine pending appeals, but many other challenges have been dismissed or have not progressed in court. Beyond Colorado and Maine, at least 17 states have unresolved challenges.

The election challenges center on whether Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss make him ineligible to serve as president again. Those cases rely on an obscure and largely untested clause in a constitutional amendment enacted after the Civil War that disqualifies from holding office government officials who “participated in an insurrection or rebellion.”

The Colorado Supreme Court and Maine’s secretary of state, a Democrat, found Trump ineligible under that provision. Trump, who leads in Republican primary polls, can appeal those decisions. His campaign has called attempts to remove him from the polls as unconstitutional and undemocratic.

Several judges have dismissed cases at the request of Trump or the person who brought the challenge. The Michigan and Minnesota Supreme Courts have said Trump is eligible to appear on the primary ballot in those states.