Inside the conservative legal fight to keep Biden ON the 2024 ballot

Republicans scheme to effort to make it difficult to region President Biden from nan Democratic ballot aft he announced plans to measurement speech connected Sunday. 

The influential blimpish group Heritage Foundation has for months been prepping a ineligible fight, first reported by DailyMail.com, successful anticipation of Biden stepping aside.  

 'The process for substitution and withdrawal is very complicated,' said Mike Howell, Executive Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, successful a connection to DailyMail.com past month. 'We will stay vigilant that due election integrity procedures are followed.'

Some Republicans said removing Biden from nan apical of nan summons aft voters had already chosen him successful primaries was anti-democratic. 

'At this unprecedented juncture successful American history, we must beryllium clear astir what conscionable happened,' Speaker Mike Johnson wrote connected X. 

'The Democrat Party forced nan Democrat nominee disconnected nan ballot, conscionable complete 100 days earlier nan election. Having invalidated nan votes of much than 14 cardinal Americans who selected Joe Biden to beryllium nan Democrat nominee for president, nan self-proclaimed ‘party of democracy’ has proven precisely nan opposite.' 

Now that Biden has withdrawn, it is up to nan delegates astatine nan Democratic National Convention to prime a caller nominee.  But from there, they tin expect ineligible challenges from Republicans looking to forestall immoderate different Democratic nominee from getting connected nan ballot successful definite states. 

The Heritage Oversight task has group their sights connected 3 contentious swing states wherever they judge taking Biden disconnected nan Democratic summons would not let anyone other to switch him: Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. 

Wisconsin does not let withdrawal from nan ballot for immoderate logic too death. 

In Nevada, nary changes tin beryllium made to nan ballot aft 5 p.m. connected nan 4th Friday successful June of an predetermination twelvemonth aliases 'a nominee dies aliases is adjudicated insane aliases mentally incompetent.' 

If Biden were to retreat little than 60 days earlier nan predetermination Georgia his sanction will stay connected nan ballot but nary votes will beryllium counted. 

In Texas, nan 2 party's nominees person until nan 74th time earlier nan predetermination to retreat from nan ballot. Some states, for illustration South Carolina, do not let candidates to retreat for governmental reasons. 

Some states don't person immoderate laws connected nan books for dealing pinch a statesmanlike nominee withdrawing, and location is small precedent for specified a business occurring. 

The memo concluded: 'Policymakers and nan nationalist should beryllium prepared for each externalities that originate from President Biden not moving for President successful 2024. The process for substitution and withdrawal presents galore predetermination integrity issues.' 

'Adherence to nan rule successful immoderate states whitethorn consequence successful that process being unsuccessful for nan purposes of different campaigner being connected nan ballot.' 

Biden stepped down Sunday aft a oversea of Democratic calls to do so. He had insisted he would stay successful nan title aft nan disastrous statement wherever his property and cognitive diminution were connected afloat display.