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Trump’s first point of defense is that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does not apply to him because it does not specifically mention the office of President or Vice President in the section about taking a prior oath to support the Constitution. While...
by stelleen
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 02:57 PM PST
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� � �The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on February 8, on whether or not Trump should be disqualified from holding the office of President and removed from the ballot pursuant to ...
by John Rudden
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 08:51 AM PST
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Both a liberal group that sought to disqualify Donald Trump and the former president himself on Monday night appealed a Colorado judge's ruling that Trump “engaged in insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021 but can stay on the state's ballot. The appeals were...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 08:36 AM PST
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Judge Sarah B. Wallace may have had her reasons for the ruling she handed down yesterday, but she failed us as one of the main gatekeepers of law. We needed an immediate remedy to Trump chaos, and we do not have it. Not only that but now we will have...
by sepiasiren
29 comments
on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 11:47 AM PST
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A Colorado judge on Friday found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but rejected an effort to keep him off the state’s primary ballot because it's unclear whether a Civil...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 06:32 AM PST
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George Santos’ congressional career explodes The House Ethics Committee released the long-awaited report on Rep. George Santos’ spending of campaign funds, and its allegations are so salacious and devastating that he’s calling it quits after his...
by Jen Hayden
118 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 02:05 PM PST
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The effort to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot under � the Constitution's “insurrection clause” � turned to distant history on Wednesday, when a law professor testified about ...
by Associated Press
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on Wed Nov 01, 2023 at 11:58 AM PDT
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Lawyers sparred Tuesday over former President Donald Trump's relationship with the mob that attacked the Capitol, an important point in a Colorado lawsuit seeking to bar him from the 2024 ballot ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 01:04 PM PDT
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The campaign to use the U.S. Constitution's “insurrection” clause � to bar former President Donald Trump � from running for the White House again enters a new phase this week as hearings begin ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Oct 30, 2023 at 01:36 PM PDT
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Answerable to no one, seditious to the last. Trial scheduled for 30 October. Former President Donald Trump is arguing to a judge in Colorado that he was not required to "support" the Constitution as president, reported Brandi Buchman from Law & Crime....
by annieli
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 05:37 PM PDT
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There are now two high-profile lawsuits—now in Minnesota, after last week’s case in Colorado—seeking to bar Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. Both lawsuits invoke a provision in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that bars people...
by Charles Jay
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on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 03:10 PM PDT
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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump moved a lawsuit seeking to bar him from running again for the White House from state to federal court in the first step of what promises to be a tangled legal battle that seems destined for the U.S. Supreme...
by Associated Press
121 comments
on Fri Sep 08, 2023 at 01:26 PM PDT
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A liberal group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado, arguing he is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely used clause in the U.S. Constitution aimed at candidates who...
by Associated Press
259 comments
on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 10:08 AM PDT
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Donald Trump hoards stolen top secret government documents. He steals the hearts of brutal dictators and unreconstructed racists. He reliably saps our will to live. Any one of those things should be enough to disqualify him from high office, but it’s...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Aug 26, 2023 at 02:05 PM PDT
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In New Mexico Lawyers from C.R.E.W. successfully sued againsts MAGA politician Couy Griffin — head of “Cowboys from Trump” — and managed to have him legally disqualified from office due to his participation in the January 6 Insurrection. SANTA FE — A...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sat Aug 12, 2023 at 10:47 AM PDT
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If the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump for president despite his state and federal criminal indictments for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, it will likely lead to lawsuits in multiple states to remove him from the...
by Charles Jay
61 comments
on Tue Aug 15, 2023 at 01:50 PM PDT
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S2E11 of the Countdown podcast is up. OnMy.FM link (which also links to his previous podcasts) ivoox also carries his podcast. YouTube: Preview: A-Block (1:16) SPECIAL COMMENT: “Donald Trump cannot BE President — cannot run FOR President — cannot...
by Proginoskes
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on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 10:04 PM PDT
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Pass it on and subscribe: Two members of Congress-elect and five state legislators-elect need to be investigated to determine if they meet the constitutional qualifications for office or are disqualified for engaging in insurrection. If any of them are...
by jqjacobs
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on Sat Dec 17, 2022 at 09:30 AM PST
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On the heels of the Jan. 6 insurrection, corporate PACs appeared to register the dangerous moment democracy faced and pledged to suspend donations to the 147 GOP members of Congress who objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential...
by msouza
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on Sat Nov 19, 2022 at 06:00 AM PST
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Episode #70 of the Countdown podcast is up. And Keith posted a preview at YouTube. A-Block (1:14) SPECIAL COMMENT: It goes without saying Trump should not merely already be under indictment — He should be under 24/7 guard in a SuperMax Prison. But he’s...
by Proginoskes
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on Thu Nov 03, 2022 at 10:30 PM PDT
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