Watchdog Group Files Lawsuit To Remove Trump From Colorado Ballot
A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group is attempting to interfere in the election in Colorado, filing a lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in the state over his supposed role in the January 6 Capitol protests.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a left-leaning “watchdog group,” filed the lawsuit in Colorado under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
The group has released a statement on its website about the lawsuit — using false claims about Trump inciting violence on January 6, 2021, to justify their attempt to interfere in the 2024 election. In the statement, the group claimed that Trump had “disqualified himself from public office” by engaging in an “insurrection or rebellion.”
“Having disqualified himself from public office by violating Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, Donald Trump must be removed from the ballot, according to a lawsuit filed today by six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters including former state, federal and local officials, represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the firms Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law, LLC and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC,” the statement read.
“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, also known as the Disqualification Clause, bars any person from holding federal or state office who took an ‘oath…to support the Constitution of the United States’ and then has ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,’” the statement continued. “On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood before the nation and took an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.’ After losing the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump violated that oath by recruiting, inciting and encouraging a violent mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a futile attempt to remain in office.”
Of course, the false narrative being pushed by CREW to justify removing Trump from the ballot can be debunked through the former president’s speech from January 6 — where he told the crowd to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Trump also tweeted that day, writing: “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”
Nonetheless, Trump is still facing charges from Special Counsel Jack Smith over January 6 and his attempts to legally challenge the results of the 2020 election.
However, according to Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley, the idea that the 14th Amendment can be used to remove Trump from the ballot is unrealistic and “dangerous.”
“I think it’s the most dangerous theory that has emerged in decades. I think it’s entirely unsupported by the text and the history of the 14th Amendment. This provision was written after the Civil War of an actual rebellion where hundreds of thousands of people died — there was an army on the other side. They had their own foreign policy,” Turley said during a Tuesday night appearance on Fox News.
