The campaign to use the US Constitution to bar Donald Trump from running for the White House again enters a new phase.
from running for the White House again enters a new phase this week as hearings begin in two states on lawsuits that might end up reaching the US Supreme Court.
"We've had hearings with presidential candidates debating their eligibility before — Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, John McCain," said Derek T. Muller, a Notre Dame law professor, listing candidates challenged on whether they met the constitutional requirement of being a "natural born citizen". But these cases, Muller added, are different, using an obscure clause of the Constitution with the "incendiary" bar against insurrection.
The plaintiffs in the cases argue the issue is simple: Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, leading to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, mean he's disqualified from the presidency just as clearly as if he were not a natural-born citizen, another constitutional prerequisite for the office.An attorney for former president Donald Trump, Geoffrey Blue, heads into a courtroom.
Trump has castigated the lawsuits as "election interference". His lawyers contend that none of the issues are simple in a provision of the Constitution that hasn't been used in 150 years. Finally, Trump's lawyers contend the former president never "engaged in insurrection" and was simply exercising his free speech rights to warn about election results he did not believe were legitimate.
The arguments in Colorado could feature testimony from witnesses to the January 6 attack or other important events during Trump's efforts to overturn the election. The identities of witnesses have been shielded until they take the stand, part of the court's effort to limit the heated rhetoric and threats that have become an issue in Trump's criminal trials.
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