The January 6, 2021, Capitol attack is at the core of a lawsuit seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause.”
Six Colorado voters filed a lawsuit in September, under the state’s law governing primary elections, which grants the secretary of state the power to “certify” the “names and party affiliations of the candidates to be placed on any presidential primary election ballots.” With the help of a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the plaintiffs argued that Trump is ineligible to hold office again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution.
