A coalition of six Republicans and unaffiliated Colorado voters, including former state and federal officials, filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 presidential ballot.
The plaintiffs are represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit and “nonpartisan” watchdog organization, alongside law firms Tierney Lawrence Stiles LLC, KBN Law, LLC, and Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchcliff & Murray LLC.
The plaintiffs are Norma Anderson, Michelle Priola, Claudine Cmarada, Krista Kafer, Kathi Wright, and Christopher Castilian.
The case argues that Trump violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies any individual from holding federal office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States.
According to the lawsuit:
Donald Trump tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. Before the election, he made plans to cast doubt on and undermine confidence in our nation’s election infrastructure. After the election, he knowingly sought to subvert our Constitution and system of elections through a sustained campaign of lies. His efforts culminated on January 6, 2021, when he incited, exacerbated, and otherwise engaged in a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol by a mob who believed they were following his orders, and refused to protect the Capitol or call off the mob for nearly three hours as the attack unfolded.
Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power were part of an insurrection against the Constitution of the United States. Because Trump took these actions after he swore an oath to support the Constitution, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits him from being President and from qualifying for the Colorado ballot for President in 2024…
Racism and white supremacy—the same virulent ideologies that led to the Civil War and, in its wake, the Fourteenth Amendment—pervaded Trump’s insurrection and the movement surrounding it. Ahead of January 6th, Trump and his allies directed their false claims of election fraud at cities with large Black populations, targeting and specifically identifying “urban” areas in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Atlanta. They sought to coerce and intimidate officials in those jurisdictions to invalidate the votes of millions of Black Americans.
Former Colorado House and Senate Majority leader Norma Anderson (R) said in a statement, “Spending 19 years as a state legislator and serving in leadership gave me the opportunity to work across the aisle and to always work to protect the freedoms our Constitution has given us as citizens. I am proud to continue that work by bringing this lawsuit and ensuring the eligibility of candidates on Colorado ballots.”
Krista Kafer, a conservative columnist for the Denver Post and Republican activist, offered her stance: “As a longtime Republican who voted for him, I believe Donald Trump disqualified himself from running in 2024 by spreading lies, vilifying election workers, and fomenting an attack on the Capitol.”
“In my decade of service in the House of Representatives, I certified multiple presidential elections and saw firsthand the importance of ethics, the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power in our democracy,” former Republican member of Congress Claudine (Cmarada) Schneider. “This lawsuit is crucial to protecting and fortifying those fundamental democratic values, and I’m honored to be a part of it.”
Backstabbing RINOs need to be kicked out of their cushy money making fiefdoms. They are the real insurrectionists!! I hate politicians who are paid off under the table by communists like Soros.
We’ll just write him in. easy peezy… At this point, I would vote for him just BECAUSE you try to tell me I can’t…. I’ll vote for him however I need to
If he is disqualified then all the DNC reps. that were involved in the “peaceful protest” riots of June 2020 should also be disqualified!
You stupid fucking bastards this is America and stopping an American from being on the ballot is wrong because you are all butt hurt, when Trump made his speech he GAVE US A WARNING ONLY IF THE DEMOCRATS WON, ” We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore ” he was right look at what gangs are doing stealing large amounts of items from stores in daylight Trump warned us THAT’S ALL HE DID. and before he ended the speech he said this ‘ Everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices herd ” Trump NEVER ONCE SAID TO RIOT THOSE WERE GANGS AND ANTIFA WEARING MAGA CAPS and the MSM very skillfully omitted his speech to match what they wanted YOU to hear they left out peacefully and patriotically they did this on purpose YOU PEOPLE BETTER WAKE THE HELL UP WE NEED PRESIDENT TRUMP TO WIN IN 2024 IF YOU THINK IT BAD NOW IT WILL BE TEN TIMES WORSE IF DEMOCRATS EVER GET IN PRESIDENT TRUMP IS OUR ONLY HOPE TO BE A GREAT COUNTRY ONCE AGAIN.
Looks like the women of the Senate don’t have what it takes to stand up to Dems who hate the country!