DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used “insurrection” clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech.

The lawyers made the argument in a filing posted Monday by a Colorado court in the most significant of a series of challenges to Trump’s candidacy under the Civil War-era clause in the 14th Amendment. The challenges rest on Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden and his role leading up to the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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      1 year ago

      They probably hope they’re going to make a name for themselves… and then they get hired and see all the evidence they’re up against (which I’m sure is significantly more than we the public have seen).

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      1 year ago

      There seems to be an unending queue of people who think that this time Trump’ll pay up.

      Fool me once…