{"id":2025062,"date":"2023-09-07T18:53:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-warns-14th-amendment-effort-to-remove-trump-from-ballots-sets-dangerous-precedent\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T22:54:53","slug":"tom-cotton-warns-14th-amendment-effort-to-remove-trump-from-ballots-sets-dangerous-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-warns-14th-amendment-effort-to-remove-trump-from-ballots-sets-dangerous-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cotton cautions against removing Trump from ballots, citing dangerous precedent."},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftom-cotton-warns-14th-amendment-effort-to-remove-trump-from-ballots-sets-dangerous-precedent%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=2025062&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>Sen. Tom \u200cCotton\u2064 Warns Democrats of Dangerous Precedent<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) \u2063issued a stern warning to Democrats seeking to remove former President Donald Trump from state ballots using the 14th Amendment. Cotton emphasized \u2064that such a move would establish a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-gets-heat-for-orwellian-suggestion-biden-admin-appoint-reality-czar\/\" title=\"NYT gets heat for Orwellian suggestion Biden admin. appoint \u2018reality czar\u2019\">dangerous precedent<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the former\u2063 president have been attempting to \u200cblock his \u200dpresence\u200d on the ballot in New Hampshire and Colorado. In\u200d fact, the legal advocacy group Free Speech for People recently sent letters to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-warns-14th-amendment-effort-to-remove-trump-from-ballots-sets-dangerous-precedent\/\" title=\"Tom Cotton cautions against removing Trump from ballots, citing dangerous precedent.\">top election\u200c officials<\/a> in \u200cnine \u2062states, urging them to prevent Trump from appearing on the ballot.<\/p>\n<h3>Unprecedented Assault on Democratic Customs<\/h3>\n<p>During\u200b an interview\u2062 with Fox \u2064News, Cotton revealed that he had spoken to \u2064Republicans\u200d who\u200b strongly support \u200dTrump, as well\u2062 as those who favor other candidates. Regardless \u200cof their preferences, they all agreed that the Democrats&#8217; attempt to remove\u200b the leading candidate of the opposition party from the ballot\u2063 is an unprecedented assault on basic democratic customs.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton\u200b emphasized that if Democrats have concerns about Trump, they should aim to defeat him \u2064legally and fairly in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">upcoming election<\/a>, rather than resorting to removing him from the ballot.<\/p>\n<h3>14th Amendment Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>Some critics and opponents of the former president argue that\u2063 he violated the 14th Amendment during the\u2063 January 6, 2021, Capitol \u2062Hill \u2062riot. \u2063According\u2063 to \u2062the amendment, individuals who have engaged in insurrection against\u200c the United States or provided aid to its enemies are barred from\u2063 holding office again. However, it is\u200d important to\u200b note that Trump\u2062 has not been convicted of\u2063 insurrection or rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>Trump currently\u2063 faces charges\u200d of three conspiracy charges and one count of obstructing or attempting to obstruct an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-of-horrors-woman-boyfriend-arrested-after-abandoned-children-found-living-with-skeleton-of-sibling\/\" title=\"\u2018House Of Horrors\u2019: Woman, Boyfriend Arrested After Abandoned Children Found Living With Skeleton Of Sibling\">official proceeding related<\/a> to the riot. The trial for this case is scheduled for March \u20624, just a \u200dday before Super Tuesday. Trump\u200b has\u200d pleaded &#8220;not guilty&#8221; to \u2062all charges.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 former president has dismissed the 14th Amendment effort as a &#8220;trick&#8221; and argued that\u2062 there is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-overwhelming-support-for-school-choice-in-n-c\/\" title=\"Poll: Overwhelming support for school choice in N.C.\">legal basis<\/a> for the argument. Trump believes that such a precedent would utilize lawfare to deprive voters \u2063of their right to choose their next president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) cautioned Democrats against using the 14th Amendment to eliminate Donald Trump from state ballots, stating it would establish a perilous precedent. Critics are seeking to remove him from the ballot in New Hampshire and Colorado, but this move has been opposed by the legal advocacy group Free Speech for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2025063,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2025062","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}