{"id":2024538,"date":"2023-09-07T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/engaged-in-insurrection-group-sues-to-keep-trump-off-2024-ballot-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:08:39","slug":"engaged-in-insurrection-group-sues-to-keep-trump-off-2024-ballot-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/engaged-in-insurrection-group-sues-to-keep-trump-off-2024-ballot-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Group sues to bar Trump from 2024 Colorado ballot over insurrection involvement."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fengaged-in-insurrection-group-sues-to-keep-trump-off-2024-ballot-in-colorado%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=2024538&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--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>Reuters<\/h2>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Watchdog Files Lawsuit to Block Trump from Ballot in Colorado<\/h3>\n<p>A Washington-based \u200cethics\u200d watchdog filed \u2064a lawsuit \u200don Wednesday to try to block former president Donald Trump from appearing on the\u2063 ballot in Colorado next \u2064year \u2062if he wins the Republican presidential nomination, arguing that his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, disqualify him from office.<\/p>\n<p>The nonpartisan group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed the lawsuit in a \u200cColorado state court on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated voters including former state, federal, and local officials, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The untested legal strategy, which relies on a\u2062 reading \u2064of the \u200c14th Amendment to the \u2062U.S. Constitution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/engaged-in-insurrection-group-sues-to-keep-trump-off-2024-ballot-in-colorado\/\" title=\"Group sues to bar Trump from 2024 Colorado ballot over insurrection involvement.\">faces \u2064long\u200c odds<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-looming-georgia-case-could-be-most-damaging-to-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Georgia case could severely harm Donald Trump.\">legal\u200d experts<\/a>. It would require legal challenges in \u200call U.S. states and\u200c territories to\u200c convince officials that \u2063the former president is ineligible to \u200cserve after his supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to overturn his election defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic president Joe Biden in 2024, continues to falsely claim his defeat was the result \u200dof fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it is unprecedented to bring this type of case against a former president, January 6th was an \u2064unprecedented attack that is exactly the kind of event the framers \u200bof the\u2063 14th Amendment wanted to build protections\u200c in case of,&#8221; Noah Bookbinder, president of the \u200cethics \u2062group known as CREW, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit cites Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,\u200c which bars any \u200bperson \u200cfrom holding federal or state office who took an &#8220;oath &#8230; to support the Constitution of the United States&#8221; and then &#8220;<strong>engaged<\/strong> in <strong>insurrection<\/strong> or rebellion against the same,&#8221; according to\u200b the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nih-director-violated-agency-policy-by-intentionally-misrepresenting-natural-covid-immunity-study-watchdog-alleges\/\" title=\"NIH Director Violated Agency Policy By \u2018Intentionally\u2019 Misrepresenting Natural COVID Immunity Study, Watchdog Alleges\">watchdog alleges<\/a> that Trump violated that oath by &#8220;recruiting, inciting and encouraging a violent mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in a\u2062 futile attempt \u2063to remain in office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u200d has pleaded not \u2064guilty to charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in federal court in Washington that he conspired to\u2062 defraud the United States by preventing Congress from certifying Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-seeks-fbi-briefing-after-special-agent-comes-forward-with-disclosure-on-investigation-of-d-c-pipe-bombs-before-jan-6\/\" title=\"Jim Jordan Seeks FBI Briefing After Special Agent Comes Forward With Disclosure on Investigation of D.C. Pipe Bombs Before Jan 6\">2020 election victory<\/a> and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-republican-party-seeks-to-disqualify-democratic-nominee-for-governor-terry-mcauliffe-in-new-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Virginia Republican Party Seeks To Disqualify Democratic Nominee For Governor Terry McAuliffe In New Lawsuit\">deprive voters<\/a> of their right to\u2064 a fair election.<\/p>\n<p>While the\u200b lawsuit was filed\u2064 in Colorado, \u200delection analysts rate that\u2063 state as solidly Democratic and one that Trump \u2064would be\u2064 unlikely to win in\u2063 2024 even \u2064if he were on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa and Jack Queen in New York; editing by Scott Malone and Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nonpartisan ethics watchdog in Washington has sued to prevent Donald Trump from being on Colorado&#8217;s ballot if he secures the Republican presidential nomination. They argue that his actions on January 6, 2021, disqualify him from office. 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