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Becky Sullivan

What's next after Colorado? Here's where other challenges to Trump's candidacy stand

Former President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump at a campaign event in Iowa on Tuesday. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)

Legal challenges to Donald Trump's eligibility on the 2024 Republican primary ballots are underway in more than a dozen states. Each seeks the same result as this week's historic decision by the Colorado Supreme Court: to disqualify the former president from that state's ballot.

The lawsuits, filed by a variety of plaintiffs and legal groups, all focus on a little-used clause of the 14th Amendment that dates back to the Civil War era, and disqualifies from office anyone who engaged in "insurrection or rebellion" against the United States.

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