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Colorado Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump 14th Amendment case
Trial coverage Read more from our reporting on the Trump 14th Amendment case here. Colorado’s highest court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a landmark case seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot under a Civil War-era insurrection clause. In a two-hour hearing, the seven justices of the Colorado Supreme Court challenged […]
Case seeking to bar Trump from 2024 ballot appealed to Colorado Supreme Court
Trial coverage Read more from our reporting on the Trump 14th Amendment trial here. The widely anticipated next phase of a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to seek office again began on Monday with separate appeals filed by Trump and the plaintiffs who brought the case to the Colorado Supreme Court. A Denver […]
Colorado judge rejects attempt to bar Trump from 2024 ballot under ‘insurrection’ clause
Trial coverage Read more from our reporting on the Trump 14th Amendment trial here. A Colorado judge has ordered the state’s top elections official to place former President Donald Trump on the 2024 primary ballot, rejecting a lawsuit from a group of voters who argued the Republican frontrunner is constitutionally ineligible to hold office under a […]
Testimony on 14th Amendment continues on final day of Colorado Trump trial
Read more from our reporting on the Trump 14th Amendment trial here. The final day of a weeklong trial in a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to seek office again began with a protracted dispute over how much expertise an expert witness called by Trump’s legal team really had. Robert Delahunty, a […]
Testimony from election deniers begins Trump’s defense in Colorado 14th Amendment trial
Read more from our reporting on the Trump 14th Amendment trial here. A series of tense exchanges between plaintiffs’ attorneys and witnesses called by former President Donald Trump’s legal team characterized the opening stages of Trump’s defense in a Colorado trial to determine whether he is ineligible to seek office under the Constitution’s “insurrection” clause. […]
‘Insurrection’ clause Civil War-era history scrutinized on day three of Colorado Trump trial
When Gerard Magliocca, an Indiana University law professor, submitted a draft law review article on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for publication in December 2020, few in the world of constitutional law could have anticipated just how relevant it would become a short time later. At the time, Magliocca said in testimony in Denver […]
Extremism expert testifies on Trump’s ‘violent’ rhetoric in Colorado 14th Amendment trial
Former President Donald Trump’s history of violent rhetoric and statements about extremist groups were the subject of continued testimony on Tuesday in a trial seeking to bar him from the 2024 Colorado ballot under a Civil War-era constitutional provision. It’s a pattern that the plaintiffs in the case and an expert witness say is crucial […]
Trump 14th Amendment trial in Colorado opens with focus on events of Jan. 6
DENVER — A weeklong trial in a challenge to former President Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to seek office again began in a Denver courtroom on Monday with a focus on the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and interrupted the certification of election results. Six Colorado voters have […]