Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press
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A onetime attorney for former President Donald Trump is agreeing to a ban from practicing in Colorado for three years. The ban comes after Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty to a felony charge for trying to overturn Trump's 2020 loss in Georgia. Ellis had already been censured by Colorado legal officials for making repeated false statements about the 2020 election.
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Republican Rep. Ken Buck has announced that he'll resign next week, narrowing his party's razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat. Buck is a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party's handling of former President Donald Trump.
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Donald Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado, where that state's highest court ruled that he violated a constitutional provision targeting those who "engaged in insurrection."
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Former President Donald Trump is expected to appeal rulings from Colorado and Maine that he is no longer eligible for the presidency. It would set up a high-stakes showdown over a 155-year-old addition to the Constitution that bans from office those who "engaged in insurrection." The appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling would go to the U.S. Supreme Court, while the appeal to the ruling by Maine's Democratic secretary of state would go to that state's Superior Court.
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Former President Donald Trump's bid to win back the White House is now endangered by two sentences added to the U.S. Constitution 155 years ago. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment prohibits anyone who swore an oath to support the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection" against it from holding office. For the first time in history, a court this week ruled that applies to the presidency.
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Donald Trump is back on Colorado’s primary ballot after he was disqualified from running by a state Supreme Court ruling earlier this month.
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The Colorado Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump should be barred from running for president again under the Constitution's ban against those who "engaged in insurrection."
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A liberal group is appealing a Colorado judge's ruling that former President Donald Trump can stay on the ballot despite a constitutional bar on office for those who "engaged in insurrection." Trump appealed District Judge Sarah B. Wallace's finding that he incited the Jan. 6 attacks.
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A Colorado judge has found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but rejected an effort to keep him off the state's primary ballot because it's unclear whether a Civil War-era Constitutional amendment applies to the presidency.
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A Colorado judge heard closing arguments on whether Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is barred from the ballot by a provision of the U.S. Constitution that forbids those who "engaged in insurrection" from holding office. The hearing came on the heels of two losses elsewhere for advocates who are trying to remove Trump under Section Three of the 14th Amendment.