The effort to influence the outcome of the 2024 election by removing former President Donald Trump from the ballot has hit another snag. A Nevada judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit intended to disqualify Trump from seeking office under the 14^th Amendment.

This is the latest development in a national campaign by Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans to take the former president’s name off the ballot in multiple states using the 14^th Amendment, which forbids those who engaged in a rebellion against the government from holding office. The lawsuit in Nevada was filed by supposed Republican presidential candidate John Anthony Castro.

U.S. District Court Judge Gloria M. Navarro, who was appointed by former President Obama, issued the order Monday dismissing Castro’s lawsuit that had ultimately asked if the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment bars Trump from holding office over his alleged incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

"This is a politically charged question of significant interest to the American public," Navarro noted. "For reasons discussed below, the Court finds that Castro lacks standing, and the Court therefore lacks jurisdiction to hear this case."

"To have standing to sue in federal court, a plaintiff must have suffered a concrete, particularized, and actual or imminent injury in fact that was caused by the defendant’s challenged conduct and is redressable by a favorable decision," Navarro explained. "This limitation on the judicial power prevents a plaintiff from invoking Article III jurisdiction of federal court by asserting what is merely a ‘general interest common to all members of the public.’"

Navarro concluded that Castro had “improperly manufactured standing” to challenge Trump’s eligibility, pointing to an Associated Press article in which he acknowledged that he is not truly running for president.

Castro, from Texas, said he is unlikely to campaign beyond signing up.

“I’m not going to lie and pretend my candidacy is anything more than trying to enforce the United States Constitution, and that’s what I’m here to do,” he said. “I don’t want to distract anything from the mission. The fight’s going to be in the courtroom. I’m going to do my best to try to get people to see the light. But at the end of the day, I don’t need the people to see the light, I need the courts to see the light.”

In her ruling, the judge noted Castro’s prior comments show that he “is creating his own injury in order to manufacture standing to challenge Trump’s eligibility to run for president.”

Notably, the judge did not weigh in on the validity of the argument that Trump should be disqualified under the 14^th Amendment.

This story emerges after Colorado and Maine removed Trump from the ballot. The Colorado case, in particular, will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Maine decision was later suspended pending an appeal to the court.

The overall push to disqualify Trump has been a source of controversy with high-profile individuals on the right and left criticizing it as a politically-motivated initiative to skew the upcoming election in the Democrats’ favor.

The Nevada ruling, combined with the ongoing cases in Colorado and Maine, reflects the lengths to which Democrats are willing to go to ensure a victory for their candidate in 2024. Despite their public support for the concept of “democracy,” the left seeks to override the will of the people and decide for them which candidates they can support. Ultimately, the decision will be left to the Supreme Court, which will determine whether their scheme will succeed.