Published October 31,2023
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team arrived in Colorado on Monday for the five-day trial that will decide his eligibility to be on the state ballot.
“They’re trying to put up their ‘steal’ curtain around Colorado,” Jason Miller, a senior adviser with the Trump campaign, said ahead of the trial’s start. “And when I say ‘steal’ curtain, that’s S-T-E-A-L. Democrats are trying to steal this race.”
According to the Denver Post, both Donald Trump’s legal team and the plaintiffs in the case have characterized the trial as a battle for Democracy “whether by allowing Trump to run again for the country’s highest office or, in the defense’s view, by endorsing a political charade that would rob many voters of their favored candidate”:
A group of Colorado Republican and unaffiliated voters, backed by the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed the challenge in Denver District Court. Their lawsuit seeks, based on Trump’s alleged role on Jan. 6, to keep him off the ballot under a provision of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that bars people who engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding office.
Plaintiffs called several witnesses from January 6, including police officers, who testified to some of the violence they experienced at the hands of the rioters that day.
“(Protestors) told us we were on the wrong side of history when we were defending the United States Capitol and the peaceful transfer of power,” said Officer Daniel Hodges of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department.
RELATED: Trial to Remove Trump from Ballot Begins – Guess Who Appointed Judge Hearing the Case?
Published October 31,2023
On Monday, hearings began that could take former President Donald Trump off of the ballot in what may be a swing state. And, surprise, surprise, the judge hearing the legal challenge was appointed by the state’s Democratic governor.
According to Colorado Newsline, the proceedings began in a courtroom in Denver under the watchful eye of Judge Sarah Wallace, an appointment of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
She was appointed in August 2022.
The case is the latest in a series of legal actions targeting Trump and Trump-allied Republicans who dared to urge that the 2020 election not receive the rubber stamp of certification of Congress.
Democratic politicians have done this in every election this century that they’ve lost, mind you, but the Capitol incursion helped the media forget about this.
SOURCE: https://www.westernjournal.com/trial-remove-trump-ballot-begins-guess-appointed-judge-hearing-case/
RELATED: Trial begins over whether Trump should be kept off the 2024 ballot in Colorado
The lawsuit alleges Trump violated his oath of office in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, leading up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Published October 31,2023
A state court in Denver began hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot over his role in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
Second Judicial District Judge Sarah Wallace last week rejected Trump’s latest attempt to toss out the lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of six voters in Denver district court last month.
The lawsuit argues Trump should be prohibited from running in future elections, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which states no person may hold office who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” after having sworn under oath to support and defend the Constitution. The suit alleges Trump violated his oath of office in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, and several law firms filed the suit on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated voters.
Eric Olson, a lawyer for CREW, began the hearing by describing Trump’s conduct in the days leading up to Jan. 6, including a tweet in December 2020 telling his supporters that there would be a rally in Washington, D.C. Olson said Trump had repeatedly talked about Jan. 6 and argued that he riled up his supporters by encouraging them to go to Washington that day while pushing false claims of election fraud.
Olson played a video clip of Trump’s speech on the Ellipse the morning of Jan. 6, which included a part when he said, “Let’s walk down to the Capitol.” He argued that Trump “knew the power of his words” and that his speech agitated his supporters.
