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Trump asks Supreme Court to keep his name on Colorado ballot
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last month the Colorado Supreme Court concluded Trump engaged in an insurrection before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and as a result could not appear on the state’s primary ballot.
It marked the first time a court has said a candidate could be removed from the ballot based on a post-Civil War provision of the U.S. Constitution that bars insurrectionists from holding office.
The court has already said it will examine the validity of a law used to charge people, including Trump, in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results or the Jan. 6 attack.
The amendment provided citizenship to those born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection of the law to all, including those who had been enslaved.
But Trump’s opponents cited it as a reason the former president — false claims of election fraud inspired many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — could not run for office again.
Trump alone is responsible for sidelining himself from another presidential run, they say, because he summoned his supporters to Washington and told them to march to the U.S. Capitol and “fight like hell” just as Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden’s election victory.
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