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A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to shut down a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
The flurry of rulings late Friday from Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace are a blow to Trump, who faces candidacy challenges in multiple states stemming from his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. He still has a pending motion to throw out the Colorado lawsuit, but the case now appears on track for an unprecedented trail this month.
A post-Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment says US officials who take an oath to uphold the Constitution are disqualified from future office if they “engaged in insurrection” or have “given aid or comfort” to insurrectionists. But the Constitution does not spell out how to enforce the ban, and it has been applied only twice since the 1800s.
These headlines about Trump don’t make Trump look stupid … they make America look stupid.
Seriously, the way he runs circles around courts and the judiciary is turning the American legal system into a joke.
The system was already a joke, this just hilights the issues.
It’s funny how efficient it is when you’re poor. They’ll give you a public defender that won’t answer your calls and you will only see them 5 minutes before the hearing. You won’t stand a chance, and that is by design.
We don’t have a justice system. We have a poverty pipeline.
Gotta keep that constitutionally protected slave class numbers up.
Good reason to never move to TX, MS, AL or GA.