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'Oath-breaking insurrectionist' Trump is ineligible for office, Colorado voters tell the Supreme Court (www.nbcnews.com)

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The justices hear arguments next month on whether Trump can be barred from office for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results that culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Colorado voters who say former President Donald Trump should be barred from holding federal office because of his role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol urged the Supreme Court on Friday to kick him off their state's Republican primary ballot.

Trump "intentionally organized and incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol in a desperate attempt to prevent the counting of electoral votes cast against him," lawyers for the voters said in a new brief.

"By spearheading this attack, Trump engaged in insurrection against the Constitution," the lawyers wrote.

The case addresses whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars those who have "engaged in insurrection" from holding federal office, applies to Trump.

The court is hearing oral arguments on Feb. 8.

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[-] Shalaska@programming.dev 23 points 10 months ago

While I agree with you in principle, in practice I feel everyone agreed it really only had to be one state. There was never a chance this didn’t go to the Supreme Court and rather then duplicating the effort everywhere, it will be decided there.

Now if the Supreme Court decides this is in fact up to the states, I would then expect significantly more states to take the steps to remove him knowing their ruling will stand.

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