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We begin today with Nick Coltrain of The Denver Post reporting on the opening day of the trial seeking to omit Number 45 from Colorado’s ballot on the basis of a clause under Section 3 of the 14th amendment banning those who engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding public office.
Both sides of the ballot-qualification challenge cast the case as putting American democracy at stake — 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.
As the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination faces similar ballot challenges in several states, Colorado’s case is the first to present evidence to a judge as the plaintiffs seek to tie Trump to the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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 bar him from 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. [...]
The case is unlikely to end there and could head to the state or federal Supreme Court.
