Groups pushing to disqualify Donald Trump from 2024 ballots struck again Tuesday, filing a lawsuit in Minnesota Supreme Court to bar him from the state’s presidential primary ballot.
Free Speech for People filed the complaint on behalf of a handful of Minnesota voters, naming Minnesota secretary of state Steve Simon (D) as the respondent.
The lawsuit reads similarly to the one a different good government group filed last week in Colorado. The two organizations — Free Speech for People and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — are leading the charge in disqualifying Trump under the 14th Amendment due to his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection, and plan to file similar lawsuits across the country by the end of this year.
“Donald J. Trump, through his words and actions, after swearing an oath as an officer of the United States to support the Constitution, engaged in insurrection or rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to its enemies, as defined by Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the Minnesota suit said. “He is disqualified from holding the presidency or any other office under the United States unless and until Congress provides him relief.”
The disqualification argument, once largely unknown outside of wonky legal academia circles, has so thoroughly permeated the bloodstream of the election as to have caught Trump’s attention.
“This is like a banana republic,” Trump told right-wing radio host Dan Bongino last week. “And what they’re doing is, it’s called election interference.”
Read the lawsuit here:
I lost my list. Which disqualifying factor of Trump being ineligible to run is this again?
He’s not Minnesota nice.
I love this whole angle. And then the drip drip drip.
Truth is, Trump can’t fight this in the court of public opinion because the public only exists because of the popular.
Taking the incoming from all angles like this, well, the people that follow cults are just slaves to the popular.
Glad to see these lawsuits getting filed early so SCOTUS will be able to decide in a timely manner that only Congress gets to determine the 14/3 eligibility issue.
ETA: INDICTMENT INTERFERENCE!
Well here’s another law suit that Trump can use for grifting his base.
So I wonder if those complaining about inflation are neglecting to account for how much money their sending Trump?