唐纳德·特朗普正在权衡一场酝酿中的法律战他是否应该参加2024年的选举。
虽然他否认了所有不法行为，但越来越多的保守派学者提出了宪法论点，即特朗普试图推翻2020年的结果选举让他再也没有资格担任联邦公职。
从特朗普到阿拉巴马州到德克萨斯州，以下是竞选过程中需要了解的内容。
特朗普驳回第14修正案取消资格的推动
这位前总统正在反驳第14修正案第3节可以用来将他从2024年的选票中删除的论点。
周一晚些时候，他在一篇新的社交媒体帖子中声称，“几乎所有的法律学者都发表了意见，认为第14修正案对于即将到来的2024年总统选举没有法律依据或地位。”
然而，一些保守派学者提出不同意见，包括保守派联邦主义者协会的两名成员;威廉·鲍德和迈克尔·斯托克斯·保尔森以及退休的保守派联邦法官j·迈克尔·卢蒂格。哈佛大学法学名誉教授劳伦斯·特伯勒和卢蒂格一起参与了这个案子。
这一论点可以归结为特朗普在2020年大选和1月6日左右的行为如何与第14修正案的这一部分相关:如果一名公职人员在任职期间宣誓支持宪法，但随后“参与叛乱或反叛宪法，或[给予]敌人援助或安慰”，除非他们获得国会三分之二投票的赦免，否则他们没有资格担任公职。
特朗普在他的新职位上称任何援引第14修正案的法律挑战只是“选举干预”。
针对其他共和党人的类似努力已经失败，但根据第14修正案针对特朗普的运动已经在许多州获得了支持，包括亚利桑那州、密歇根州和新罕布什尔州的战场。
2023年6月13日，前总统唐纳德·特朗普在新泽西州贝德明斯特的特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部发表演讲。
安德鲁·哈尼克/美联社，档案
在历史性的法律纠纷中，特朗普在新的民意调查中对其政党的控制仍然很强
在特朗普之前，没有一位总统被弹劾过两次——或受到刑事指控——更不用说四次了。他以政治迫害为由驳回了所有此类案件，并对他在佛罗里达、佐治亚、纽约和华盛顿特区的每一项指控表示不服罪
但是当ABC新闻和益普索民意调查显示向特朗普展示了一些问题在他重返白宫的过程中，公众对他越来越多的刑事指控的看法方面，美国有线电视新闻网的一项新民调显示，他在共和党基础上仍然非常受欢迎，他们将选择他们党的下一任总统候选人。
他继续在2024年的共和党竞选中领先，领先他最接近的竞争对手佛罗里达州州长30多个百分点。罗恩·德桑蒂斯根据美国有线电视新闻网的报道，52%对18%调查由SSRS指挥。
在8月25日至31日的调查中，传统的劳动节开始了竞选周期，约43%的共和党选民表示他们是特朗普的坚定支持者，20%的人表示他们坚定支持另一位候选人，37%的人没有首选或表示他们可能会改变主意。
帕克斯顿接受审判
被停职的德州司法部长肯·帕克斯顿将很快得知他的命运作为他的弹劾审判预计将持续数周，于周二上午在奥斯汀州议会大厦开始。
该州首席律师帕克斯顿长期以来一直避开其他丑闻，被一个由德克萨斯州众议院经理组成的两党团体指控滥用职权。
如果被判有罪，共和党人帕克斯顿将被撤职，并可能永远禁止在他所在的州担任公职。
帕克斯顿否认有任何不当行为，并谴责弹劾是“骗局”。
这场审判对美国最大的州之一有着潜在的影响，该州位于共和党的核心，但在最近的一些选举中，该州越来越倾向于民主党。
“我认为，关注或至少将德克萨斯州视为一种可能性的努力，与帕克斯顿的腐败和清除他的努力是分开的，”民主研究和传播政治团体孤星项目(Lone Star Project)的主任马特·安格尔(Matt Angle)对美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)说，“但这肯定有帮助。”
阿拉巴马州未能为黑人选民增加选区后，法院下令绘制新地图
周二由三名法官组成的陪审团一致否决了阿拉巴马州最近重新绘制的国会地图发现共和党支持的计划不符合选举权法案，因为它没有创造第二个地区，黑人选民可能能够选出他们喜欢的候选人。
法院任命的专家现在将为2024年的选举绘制新的地图。
阿拉巴马州预计将向美国最高法院上诉。
最初在2022年推翻阿拉巴马州地图的联邦裁决命令立法机构绘制“两个黑人选民占投票年龄多数或非常接近多数的地区。”
但周二，该小组写道，阿拉巴马州的立法者“深感不安”颁布了一张无视这些发现的地图2022年。
阿拉巴马州的国会地图可能会影响2024年美国众议院的控制权。共和党人目前在众议院只有五个席位，但阿拉巴马州的黑人选民倾向于投票给民主党人。
Trump challenges argument 14th Amendment disqualifies him in 2024, and more trail takeaways
Donald Trumpis weighing inon a brewing legal battleover whether he should have access to the ballot in 2024.
While he has denied all wrongdoing, a growing number of conservative scholars have raised the constitutional argument that Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020electionmake him ineligible to hold federal office ever again.
Here's what to know from the campaign trail -- from Trump to Alabama to Texas.
Trump dismisses 14th Amendment disqualification push
The former president is pushing back on arguments that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment can be used to remove him from the ballot in 2024.
He claimed in a new social media post, late Monday, that "almost all legal scholars have voiced opinions that the 14th Amendment has no legal basis or standing relative to the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election."
However, some conservative scholars suggest otherwise, including two members of the conservative Federalist Society; William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen and retired conservative federal judge J. Michael Luttig. Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe joined Luttig in making the case.
That argument boils down to how Trump's behavior after the 2020 election and surrounding Jan. 6 relates to this section of the 14th Amendment: A public official is not eligible to assume public office if, while they were previously in office, they took an oath to support the Constitution but then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or [gave] aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," unless they are granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress.
Trump, in his new post, called any such legal challenges invoking the 14th Amendment simply "election interference."
Similar efforts against other Republicans have failed, but the campaign against Trump under the 14th Amendmenthas gained steam in a number of states, including the battlegrounds of Arizona, Michigan and New Hampshire.
Amid historic legal troubles, Trump's grip on his party still strong in new poll
Until Trump, no president had ever been impeached twice -- or criminally charged -- let alone four times. He has dismissed all such cases as political persecution and has pleaded not guilty to each of his indictments, in Florida, Georgia, New York and Washington, D.C.
But while ABC News and Ipsos pollsshowed some problems for Trumpin terms of public opinion on his mounting criminal charges amid his comeback bid for the White House -- a new CNN poll shows he remains hugely popular with the GOP base who will be choosing their party's next presidential nominee.
He continues to lead the 2024 Republican field, polling over 30 points ahead of his closest competitor, Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis: 52% to 18%, according to the new CNNsurveyconducted by SSRS.
Surveyed over Aug. 25-31, the traditional Labor Day start to the campaign cycle, around 43% of GOP-aligned voters said they are definite Trump backers, with 20% saying they are firmly behind another candidate and 37% have no first choice or say they could change their minds.
Paxton goes on trial
Suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxtonwill soon learn his fate as his impeachment trial, expected to last several weeks, began Tuesday morning in the state Capitol in Austin.
The state's top lawyer, Paxton, who has long fended off other scandals, has been accused of abuse of office by a bipartisan group of Texas House managers.
If found guilty, Paxton, a Republican, will be removed from his office and potentially permanently barred from serving in future public office in his state.
Paxton has denied any wrongdoing and has denounced the impeachment as a "sham."
The trial has potential implications for one of the country's biggest states, which sits at the heart of the Republican Party but which has, in some recent elections, been trending increasingly Democratic.
"I think that effort to focus or at least see Texas as a possibility operates apart from Paxton's corruption and the effort to remove him," Matt Angle, director of the Lone Star Project, a Democratic research and communications political group, told ABC News, "but it certainly helps."
Court orders new map after Alabama failed to add district for Black voters
A three-judge panel on Tuesdayunanimously struck down Alabama's recently redrawn congressional map, finding that that the GOP-backed plan did not comply with the Voting Rights Act as it did not create a second district in which Black voters would likely be able to elect their preferred candidate.
Court-appointed experts will now draw a new map for the 2024 elections.
Alabama is expected to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The federal ruling that originally struck down Alabama's map in 2022 ordered the Legislature to draw "two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it."
But on Tuesday, the panel wrote that they were "deeply troubled" that Alabama lawmakersenacted a map that disregarded the findingsin 2022.
Alabama's congressional map could sway the odds for control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024. Republicans currently hold the chamber by only five seats, but Black voters in Alabama tend to vote for Democrats.
