A new lawsuit filed in the Centennial State is seeking to have Trump’s name removed from the ballot, citing section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Another 14th Amendment lawsuit has been filed against former President Donald Trump, challenging his candidacy on the 2024 ballot.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a Washington D.C.-based watchdog group, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Colorado. The lawsuit, filed on behalf a handful of voters from the state, seeks to bar Trump from running for the White House under section 3 of the 14th Amendment, otherwise known as the “disqualification clause.”
The clause prohibits individuals who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the U.S. from holding federal or state office. In recent weeks, that section of the Constitution has been the crux of legal debate over whether Trump is allowed to run for the presidency due to his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
A lawsuit citing the 14th Amendment was dismissed in Florida last week, while another suit brought by a long-shot Republican presidential candidate is expected to appear before the Supreme Court later this month.
“On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood before the nation and took an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ After losing the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump violated that oath by recruiting, inciting and encouraging a violent mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a futile attempt to remain in office,” CREW said in a press release.
