The Illinois election board is scheduled to consider whether to keep Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot after a recommendation that he be removed over the Constitution’s insurrection provision. The meeting of the Illinois State Board of Elections comes a little more than a week before the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a similar case from Colorado, where the state’s highest court found the 14th amendment barred Trump from the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Illinois election board is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans. If the vote is tied, the effort fails and Trump’s name would remain on the ballot.
