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Former President Donald Trump asked a judge Friday to move a lawsuit that cites the !4th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding public office in an attempt o block his name from the 2024 Republican primary ballot in Colorado from state to federal court.
The underlying lawsuit, filed earlier this week by Washington-based advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of six Colorado voters, is the first high-profile legal case attempting to use the 14th Amendment to derail Trump’s presidential campaign.
In a response filed Friday, lawyers for Trump said that the lawsuit relies on a federal law and therefore should
