Trial Begins In Colorado to Keep Trump Off the State's 2024 Ballot: 'Anti-Democratic Election Interference'

Ashley Sadler : Oct 31, 2023
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"Judge Wallace just a year ago donated to the Colorado Turnout Project... a lefty group with this single goal of keeping Republicans off the ballot. How ... do you get a fair hearing or failed trial with a judge who's donated to the Colorado Turnout Project?" -Attorney Jason Miller

(Denver, CO) — [LifeSiteNews.com] A 14th amendment trial kicked off this week in Colorado to decide whether to remove former US President Donald Trump's name from the 2024 general election ballot in the state. Trump has blasted the lawsuit, which may go all the way to the US Supreme Court, as an attempt at "election interference." (Screengrab image)

On Monday, attorneys argued in court over whether Trump—who maintains a commanding lead over his remaining GOP rivals as the presidential election nears—ought to be considered ineligible to run for the nation's highest office due to objecting to the reported results of the 2020 election and allegedly fomenting an "insurrection" on January 6, 2021.

The trial comes after anti-Trump Washington, DC-based group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of six Colorado voters, including former officials at the federal, state and local levels, in a bid to keep Trump off the ballot in the Centennial State.

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CREW alleges that, "Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, Donald Trump is disqualified from holding office because of his attacks on the 2020 election and incitement of the January 6th insurrection."

The section in question was written in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and was adopted in 1868. It bars from higher office anyone who swore an oath "to support the Constitution of the United States" and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion... or given aid or comfort to the enemies" of the nation... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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