{"id":28292,"date":"2023-09-07T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28292"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:01:41","slug":"watchdog-sues-to-keep-trump-off-ballot-in-colorado-citing-14th-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/watchdog-sues-to-keep-trump-off-ballot-in-colorado-citing-14th-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog Sues to Keep Trump Off Ballot in Colorado, Citing 14th Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York City on September 4, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: James Devaney\/GC Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As a longtime Republican who voted for him, I believe Donald Trump disqualified himself from running in 2024 by spreading lies, vilifying election workers, and fomenting an attack on the Capitol,” said one plaintiff.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 06, 2023 (CommonDreams.org0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A government watchdog and lawyers for six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters on Wednesday filed a lawsuit<\/a> to ban former President Donald Trump as a candidate on the state’s 2024 GOP presidential primary election ballot and any future ballot, based on the January 6, 2021 insurrection and the 14th Amendment<\/a> to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As advocacy groups<\/a> and legal scholars<\/a> across the political spectrum have highlighted since the embattled ex-president and GOP front-runner confirmed his candidacy last year, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars anyone who has taken an oath to the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” from holding any civil or military office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and firms representing the voters\u2014Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law LLC, and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC\u2014argue that “Trump is constitutionally ineligible to assume the office of the president” because he “knowingly and voluntarily aided and incited the insurrection” before and on January 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As a longtime Republican who voted for him, I believe Donald Trump disqualified himself from running in 2024 by spreading lies, vilifying election workers, and fomenting an attack on the Capitol,” plaintiff Krista Kafer, a Denver Post <\/em>columnist and GOP activist, said<\/a> in a statement. “Those who by force and by falsehood subvert democracy are unfit to participate in it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the complaint filed by @CREWcrew<\/a> charging that Trump is disqualified from serving in elective office is comprehensive, compelling and damning. If Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment means anything – and it does – this complaint makes a clear cut case. https:\/\/t.co\/Ri1YjzaGs2<\/a><\/p>— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) September 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>