Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson grilled Trump lawyer Jonathan Mitchell over his claim that the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was not an insurrection.
The court on Thursday heard arguments in the former president’s appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring him from the state’s primary ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrection” clause. Jackson noted that the Colorado court concluded that the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 to halt the count of electoral votes “qualified as an insurrection” under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
