Published November 18, 2023
A judge in Colorado has rejected an attempt to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary.
It ends a landmark trial over a lawsuit that argued Mr Trump’s actions leading up to the 2021 Capitol riot render him ineligible to hold office again.
Similar challenges, based on a US Civil War-era constitutional amendment, have also failed in three other states.
Mr Trump, who did not appear at the hearing, has dismissed the effort.
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SOURCE: wwwbbc.com
RELATED: Colorado judge rules Trump ‘engaged in an insurrection’ — but can still run for president
The ruling came in a case brought by progressive activists who sued the state, arguing that Trump was barred from returning to the office.
Published November 18, 2023
A Colorado judge has turned away a challenge looking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for president under an interpretation of the 14th Amendment that argued he engaged in an insurrection against the United States on Jan. 6, 2021.
The ruling came in a case brought by progressive activists who sued the state, arguing that Trump was barred from returning to the office. A handful of courts in other states turned away similar challenges.
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SOURCE: www.politico.com
RELATED: Colorado judge finds Trump engaged in insurrection, but rejects constitutional ballot challenge
Published November 14, 2023
— A Colorado judge on Friday found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but rejected an effort to keep him off the state’s primary ballot because it’s unclear whether a Civil War-era Constitutional amendment barring insurrectionists from public office applies to the presidency.
The lawsuit, brought by a left-leaning group on behalf of a group of Republican and independent Colorado voters, contended that Trump’s actions related to the attack ran afoul of a clause in the 14th Amendment that prevents anyone from holding office who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution.
The decision by District Judge Sarah B. Wallace is the third ruling in a little over a week against lawsuits seeking to knock Trump off the ballot by citing Section 3 of the amendment. The Minnesota Supreme Court last week said Trump could remain on the primary ballot because political parties have sole choice over who appears, while a Michigan judge ruled that Congress is the proper forum for deciding whether Section 3 applies to Trump.
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SOURCE: www.apnews.com
