Hearings began in a Colorado courtroom on Monday to keep Trump off the Centennial State’s ballot over crimes of which the ex-commander-in-chief has never been convicted. Democrats are exploiting the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to claim a Civil War-era provision bars candidates from office who previously “engaged in insurrection.” Proceedings got underway in Colorado just days before a similar challenge is scheduled to be heard in Minnesota on Thursday.
“Dozens of cases citing Section Three of the 14th Amendment have been filed in recent months, but the ones in Colorado and Minnesota seem the most important,” the Associated Press reported, citing an ambiguous host of “legal experts.” In those two states, the AP admitted, the efforts to prevent the Republican frontrunner from appearing on voters’ ballots are being run by deep-pocketed left-wing groups.
If it sounds like Democrats are trying to rig elections again with a well-funded operation aimed at the destruction of their top political opponent, that’s because they are.
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Trump now faces a barrage of 91 state and federal charges just more than a year out from Election Day. Despite a wide field of rival candidates trying to topple him for the Republican nomination, Trump’s main obstacle to reclaim the presidency is effort by the federal government and other Democrats to jail him. With a more than 46-point lead in the Republican primary, Trump’s near-certain rematch against Joe Biden is really a match against
