Court considers whether Trump should be excluded from the presidential elections for “insurrection”

a court of Colorado The hearing of an action seeking to exclude donald trump of the 2024 presidential elections, alleging that he violated his oath by participating in an insurrection.

The case, one of several similar legal efforts to remove the former president from the presidential race, The White Houseit is likely that it will finally end before the Court Supreme in U.Swhere the Conservatives have a 6-3 majority.

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The lawsuit filed in Colorado by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a Washington-based watchdog group, claims that trump is not eligible to run for re-election due to the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol American perpetrated by his supporters.

The argument, which divides jurists, is based on a change to the Constitution ratified after the Civil war (1861-65).

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits anyone from holding public office Yes participated in a “insurrection or rebellion” after having committed to support and defend the Constitution.

The amendment, ratified in 1868, was intended to prevent supporters of Confederation slave owners were elected to Congress or held federal office.

Acting on behalf of six Colorado voters, CREW asked the secretary of state for Coloradothe highest election official in that western state, to avoid trump Participate in presidential of next year.

“trump incited a violent mob to attack our Capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power under our Constitution”CREW attorney Eric Olson said in his opening argument at the live-streamed hearing in Denver before the judge. Sara Wallace.

“January 6th was a insurrection against the Constitution”Olson said. “trump participated in this insurrection”.

“We are here because trump “He claims that, after all this, he has the right to be president again,” Indian. “But our Constitution (…) says that this cannot be done.”

Scott Gesslerformer Colorado secretary of state who represents trumphe counterattacked by saying the process was “anti-democratic” and urged the judge to dismiss it.

trump77 years old, will be tried in March in Washington accused of conspiring to overturn the results of the November 2020 elections, won by the Democrat Joe Biden.

He faces similar charges in a separate case in the southern state of Georgia.

trump He was impeached for the second time by House of Representatives after the attack on the Capitol -he was accused of inciting a insurrection– but was acquitted by the Senate.

Source: Elcomercio

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