California secretary of state Shirley Weber (D.) decided to keep former president Donald Trump on the state’s 2024 primary ballot, rejecting a request to remove him over his alleged violation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which forbids individuals who have “engaged in insurrection” from seeking federal office.
Weber certified the list of presidential candidates for California’s March 5 primary election Thursday night, with Trump’s name shown among the nine Republican candidates to appear on the state’s ballot for the GOP primary. The Democratic official did not release an…