A voter lawsuit asks to exclude Trump from the elections in Colorado for rebellion

Six voters of Colorado filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in a court of Denver calling for the former president to be removed donald trump of the state electoral ballots for the November 2024 presidential elections arguing the “rebellion” of January 6, 2021.

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The complaint urges the Secretary of Colorado State not to include the former president (2017-2021) as a candidate under Section 3 of Amendment 14 which stipulates that “anyone” may be a congressman or “hold any office, civil or militaryr” if after taking the oath of support for the Constitution “participated in or rebellion against insurrection, or provided aid or comfort to their enemies”.

Supported by the national organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingtonthe plaintiffs claim that Trump “knowingly and voluntarily helped and incited the insurrection of January 6 and that as a consequence was “disqualified” to participate in a new presidential election.

Trump He is the favorite in the polls of the Republican primary campaign to be the candidate for that party despite the multiple criminal lawsuits he faces in several states, including the accusation of wanting to reverse the results of the 2020 elections.

The plaintiffs in Colorado They argue, among others, that Trump was in the march “Let’s stop the theft”his tweet on the day of the events against the former vice president Mike Pence and the Republican’s request to delay the certification of the election, which the Democrat won Joe Biden.

They also object to the refusal of Trump to mobilize federal agents to restore order in the Capitol and to ask the aggressors to leave that compound.

“Four years after taking the oath (…) Trump attempted to annul the 2020 election results, sparking a violent insurrection in the Capitol”, the document states.

This is an unprecedented lawsuit that could be followed by other jurisdictions and against other people close to Trump and associated with the incidents of January 2021.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was approved in 1868, to prevent civil servants and soldiers from the Confederacy occupy high positions in the federal government. But that section has never been invoked against a former president.

Source: Elcomercio

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