{"id":2026665,"date":"2023-09-09T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-move-state-lawsuit-to-federal-court\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:08:54","slug":"trump-attorneys-move-state-lawsuit-to-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-move-state-lawsuit-to-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lawyers transfer state lawsuit to federal court."},"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\">16<\/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-attorneys-move-state-lawsuit-to-federal-court%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=2026665&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>Trump Attorneys Move State Lawsuit to Federal Court<\/h2>\n<p>Attorneys for former \u2063President Donald Trump have taken a significant step in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-presidents-son-appears-for-court-ordered-deposition-in-arkansas\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden attends court-ordered deposition in Arkansas for investigation.\">complex legal battle<\/a> by moving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-legal-team-files-appeal-after-obama-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-seeking-to-block-pennsylvania-from-certifying-its-results\/\" title=\"Trump Legal Team Files Appeal After Obama Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Seeking to Block Pennsylvania From Certifying Its Results\">lawsuit seeking<\/a> to \u2063bar him from\u2062 running\u2064 for the White House from\u2064 state to federal court. This move is expected to eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The initial lawsuit was filed by the liberal group\u200b Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in Colorado <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-two-wisconsin-supreme-court-rulings-give-president-trump-the-win-should-be-enough-votes-to-win-the-state\/\" title=\"One of Two Wisconsin Supreme Court Rulings Give President Trump the Win \u2013 Should Be Enough Votes to Win the State\">state court<\/a>. They argue that a Civil War-era clause, which prohibits higher office for\u200c those who engaged in &#8220;insurrection&#8221; after swearing an oath \u200dto the Constitution, prevents Trump from\u2062 running \u2063for president in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s attorneys have \u200dnow\u200b moved the case to federal court, stating that the challenge to Colorado&#8217;s ability to place\u200d Trump on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-move-state-lawsuit-to-federal-court\/\" title=\"Trump lawyers transfer state lawsuit to federal court.\">presidential ballot relies solely<\/a> on the\u200d Fourteenth Amendment. They argue that federal question jurisdiction\u2064 under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment \u2063justifies the removal \u2062of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-becomes-9th-state-in-union-to-ban-dozens-of-firearms\/\" title=\"Illinois Becomes 9th State In Union To Ban Dozens Of Firearms\">state court action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 14th Amendment addresses various \u2064aspects of citizenship and citizen rights.<\/p>\n<p>This case by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics is the first of many challenges\u2064 expected to be filed in different states by \u2064the \u200dgroup and another liberal nonprofit \u2063called Free Speech \u2063for People.<\/p>\n<p>While activists in other \u2064states have filed lawsuits representing \u2064themselves, legal observers believe that the \u2064more comprehensive complaints by these nonprofits are more likely to reach the nation&#8217;s highest court, which has never ruled on this \u2063particular clause.<\/p>\n<p>Trump criticized the liberal organization on Friday,\u2063 claiming that it is affiliated with his critics and \u2062people\u2062 he\u2062 clashed with during his presidency. He referred to the group as &#8220;TRUMP\u2064 DERANGED CREW&#8221; on his \u200dsocial media network Truth Social and accused \u2064them of trying to disqualify him\u200d in a &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; and &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; manner.<\/p>\n<p>CREW intends to request a \u200bfederal judge to return the case to\u2062 state court and has asked for a speedy ruling\u200b before Colorado&#8217;s Republican primary ballot is finalized on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal \u200chas reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it \u2064meets our\u200d editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bpost <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-trump-lawyers-move-insurrection-clause-lawsuit-aiming-bar-ballot-federal-court\/\">Trump Attorneys\u2064 Move State Lawsuit to Federal Court<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys for ex-President Trump have shifted a lawsuit, aiming to prevent his future White House candidacy, from state to federal court. This initiates a complex legal fight that appears bound for the U.S. Supreme Court. The liberal organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, is involved in this contentious battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2026666,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2026665","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}