A trial to determine if the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban” applies to former President Donald Trump is set to begin Monday in Denver, an historic but likely longshot case that could block him from Colorado’s presidential ballot in 2024.
The 14th Amendment disqualification trial against Donald Trump began Monday in Colorado with a group of voters tying to use the Civil War-era amendment to remove the former president from the 2024 ballot, citing his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
While some prominent constitutional experts argue that a clause in the amendment applies to former President Donald J. Trump after Jan. 6, that view is far from universal among legal scholars.
The 14th Amendment disqualification trial against former President Donald Trump continued Tuesday in Colorado, where a group of voters are trying to keep him off the 2024 ballot based on the Constitution’s post-Civil War “insurrectionist ban.”
Citing the Fourteenth Amendment, six Colorado voters petitioned the secretary of state’s office in September to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s GOP primary ballot in 2024.
Colorado is pulling out all the stops to get former president Donald Trump’s name off the 2024 GOP presidential ballot. Trump’s legal team is back in court defending their client as the state attempts to use the Fourteenth Amendment to throttle his campaign. Dr.
A Colorado judge on Wednesday rejected a bid by former President Donald Trump to shut down the 14th Amendment case against his 2024 candidacy in the middle of the ongoing trial.
