The attempt to end Trump's 2024 presidential run cites a Civil War-era amendment prohibiting candidacies by those who “engaged in insurrection” against the U.S. Constitution.
DENVER — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are arguing that attempts to kick him off the presidential ballot under a rarely used constitutional clause for engaging in “insurrection” are improper attempts to interfere with his freedom of speech.
The former president's attorneys made the claim in two motions posted in court Monday attempting to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to ban him from Colorado's presidential ballot. The case is the most significant so far in a scattered attempt to end Trump's 2024 presidential run by citing a Civil War-era amendment prohibiting candidacies by those who “engaged in insurrection” against the U.S. Constitution.
The petitioners in the lawsuit, a group of voters from Colorado — most of them Republican — claim Trump made plans to “cast doubt on and undermine confidence in our nation’s election infrastructure” and knowingly sought to subvert the U.S.
He is accused of plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia and Washington, D.C.; of hoarding classified documents he took with him to Florida after leaving the White House; and of falsifying business records related to hush money paid on his behalf in Manhattan. Some of Trump’s criminal trials are scheduled to overlap with the presidential primary season, according to the Associated Press.
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