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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Rachel Leingang

‘We were a voice in the wilderness’: the groups fighting to keep Trump off the ballot

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Donald Trump arrives for a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 17 January. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

A US supreme court case that could remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot is the culmination of several years of work by left-leaning watchdog groups to reinvigorate the 14th amendment and its power.

A Colorado case that found Trump couldn’t run for re-election there was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), though other groups and individuals have filed lawsuits and petitions in many states trying to remove Trump under the 14th amendment’s third clause. The clause says that people who were in office and participated in an insurrection against the US can’t hold office again.

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