The trial of that lawsuit over whether to remove ex-President Trump\u2019s name from next year\u2019s ballot began Monday\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A group of 6 voters– Four Republicans and two unaffiliated– are arguing that Trump\u2019s role in the January 6th<\/sup>, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington disqualifies him from running again for the office he held that day. Attorney Eric Olson represents those voters\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 231031 E Olson- can\u2019t be on ballot\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 :08\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Q:\u2026above the law\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Olson and other attorneys for those plaintiffs are citing the 14th<\/sup> Amendment to the Constitution, which says anyone engaged in insurrection can\u2019t hold any office, least of all the Presidency. Former Republican Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is one of the lawyers defending Trump\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 231031 S Gessler- some voters to be deprived\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 :12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Q:\u2026candidate they want\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n His argument is at odds with what Colorado\u2019s Republican Party has been saying. Chairman Dave Williams has tried and failed twice to change party rules to limit who can vote in GOP primaries. If Trump loses at this trial, his lawyers are expected to appeal and send the issue directly to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plaintiffs have brought in police officers who were there the day the Trump mob stormed the Capitol, and played parts of the speech he made that day. A lot of their case is based on the January 6th<\/sup> report from Congress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The trial of that lawsuit over whether to remove ex-President Trump\u2019s name from next year\u2019s ballot began Monday\u2026 (Fourteenth Amendment wrap\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:60) A group of 6 voters– Four Republicans and two unaffiliated– are arguing that Trump\u2019s role in the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}