{"id":2023733,"date":"2023-09-06T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-blasts-lawsuit-to-bar-candidate-from-co-ballot-absurd-conspiracy-theory\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:25:18","slug":"trump-campaign-blasts-lawsuit-to-bar-candidate-from-co-ballot-absurd-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-blasts-lawsuit-to-bar-candidate-from-co-ballot-absurd-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign dismisses lawsuit to bar candidate from CO ballot as &#8216;absurd conspiracy theory&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-campaign-blasts-lawsuit-to-bar-candidate-from-co-ballot-absurd-conspiracy-theory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023733&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Trump Campaign Responds to\u200c Lawsuit Seeking to Ban Former President from\u200d Colorado Ballot<\/h2>\n<p>The Trump campaign has dismissed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-sues-for-control-of-late-husbands-trust-amid-significant-medical-bills\/\" title=\"Feinstein files lawsuit for late husband's trust control due to hefty medical expenses.\">lawsuit \u2064filed<\/a> by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) in Washington, calling it an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-pretends-to-debunk-poll-worker-conspiracy-one-day-later-the-election-deniers-were-vindicated\/\" title=\"NYT Pretends To Debunk Poll Worker \u2018Conspiracy.\u2019 One Day Later, The \u2018Election Deniers\u2019 Were Vindicated\">absurd conspiracy theory<\/a>&#8221; and a political attack. The lawsuit accuses Trump of violating Section \u200d3 of the 14th\u2063 Amendment, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-christians-graciously-troll-liberals-into-attending-anti-abortion-rally\/\" title=\"WATCH: Christians Graciously \u2018Troll\u2019 Liberals Into Attending Anti-Abortion Rally\">prohibits individuals<\/a> who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion from running \u2062for office.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If\u2063 the very fabric of our democracy is to \u200dhold, \u2064we must ensure that the Constitution is enforced and the \u200bsame people who attacked our democratic system not be put \u200bin\u2062 charge of it,&#8221; said CREW\u200d President Noah Bookbinder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-five-takeaways-this-is-what-we-know-about-letitia-jamess-fraud-lawsuit-against-trump\/\" title=\"Top Five Takeaways: This Is What We Know About Letitia James\u2019s Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump\">lawsuit specifically points<\/a> to the events of January 6, 2021, when Trump allegedly incited a violent insurrection at the United States \u2064Capitol. \u2063CREW argues that it is necessary to bring this case \u2063to defend the republic\u200b and prevent \u200cthose \u200bresponsible for the attack from holding \u200bpositions of power.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;While it is unprecedented to bring this type of case against a former president, January 6th was an unprecedented attack that is exactly the kind \u200cof event the framers of the 14th Amendment\u2062 wanted to build \u200dprotections in case of. You don&#8217;t break the glass unless there&#8217;s an emergency,&#8221; added\u2064 Bookbinder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Trump campaign, \u2064however, maintains that the lawsuit is baseless and driven by political motives to remove\u2062 Trump from the \u20622024 race.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The people who are pursuing this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-blasts-lawsuit-to-bar-candidate-from-co-ballot-absurd-conspiracy-theory\/\" title=\"Trump campaign dismisses lawsuit to bar candidate from CO ballot as 'absurd conspiracy theory'.\">absurd conspiracy \u200btheory<\/a> and political attack on President Trump\u200d are stretching the law beyond recognition,&#8221; \u2063said \u200bcampaign spokesman Steven Cheung. &#8220;There is no legal basis for\u200c this\u200c effort except in the minds of those\u200d who are pushing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawsuit is being brought by CREW and a group of Republican and independent Colorado voters, with legal representation from Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, \u2063KBN\u2064 Law LLC, and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff &#038; Murray\u2062 LLC.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE\u2064 TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump campaign dismissed a lawsuit in Colorado as a political attack, labeling it an &#8220;absurd conspiracy theory.&#8221; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) filed the lawsuit, alleging Trump violated the 14th Amendment&#8217;s Section 3, which prohibits certain individuals from running for office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2023734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}