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   On 19 Nov 2023, tRUMP VERMIN Inmate P01135809    
   posted some news:ujdemo$3snkp$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > The judge made the correct decision and gave a biased statement.   
      
   A state court judge in Denver has concluded that former president Donald   
   Trump’s name can be placed on Colorado’s Republican primary ballot next   
   spring, ruling that, while he did engage in an insurrection, the   
   constitution does not bar him from seeking the presidency again.   
      
   A group of Republican and unaffiliated voters brought the case, arguing   
   in their suit that Trump’s actions around the January 6 attack on the   
   U.S. Capitol amounted to inciting an insurrection. Section 3 of the 14th   
   Amendment bars those who’ve taken an oath to the U.S constitution and   
   later rebelled against the government from holding elected office again.   
      
   In her ruling, Denver District Court judge Sarah Wallace said that   
   although he engaged in an insurrection, that section of the constitution   
   does not appear to apply to candidates for president.   
      
   “The Court holds there is scant direct evidence regarding whether the   
   Presidency is one of the positions subject to disqualification,” wrote   
   Wallace in her 102-page decision.   
      
   Wallace noted that Section 3 includes a long list of elected positions   
   that could be disqualified under the clause, stating “No person shall be   
   a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and   
   Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United   
   States, or under any State," and that President and Vice President are   
   not among them.   
      
   “Under traditional rules of statutory construction, when a list includes   
   specific positions but then fails to include others, courts assume the   
   exclusion was intentional,” she concludes, noting that there is tension   
   between the competing interpretations of the amendment, and a lack of   
   definitive historical guidance.   
      
   Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal group   
   which brought the lawsuit on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated   
   voters, said it will appeal the decision to the state supreme court.   
      
   https://www.cpr.org/2023/11/17/judge-rules-trump-will-appear-on-colorados   
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