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Colorado voters sue to disqualify Donald Trump from 2024 presidential ballot
(www.denverpost.com)
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A lawsuit is a logical step. While it is clearly written in our constitution about these kinds of things, there is little to no legal precedent to use as additional guidance. We are forming history right at this moment.
I would also speculate that while Trump has been formally charged, he has not been officially "found guilty" yet. Yeah, our legal system can be too slow sometimes.
I am not a lawyer and just your average internet idiot. I could be wrong!
In this case, everyone knows he is guilty and everyone knows there is a subset of people that will still vote for him, given the chance. A lawsuit now will beat him at his own game of tying this issue up in court even through an election.
That's the point of invoking the 14th though, it doesn't require a guilty verdict. It was originally used against ranking members of the confederates to prevent them from holding office even though very few of them were ever convicted. Specifically section 3:
That's some of the plainest language in the Constitution, to boot. I can't wait to see the #GOP's mental acrobatics in court.
They won't even try to justify it. They'll just pretend it doesn't exist and try to throw money at the issue until the right person takes it and makes it go away.