The suit follows another filed last week in Colorado alleging Trump should not be allowed on the ballot because his role in stoking the Jan. 6 insurrection violated the 14th Amendment.
Sept. 12, 2023, 5:56 PM UTCA group of voters on Tuesday filed suit seeking to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Minnesota, the latest in a string of efforts to cite a little-known provision in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution to argue that Trump is ineligible to be president because he violated his oath of office with his conduct following his loss in the 2020 election.
"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," says the , which was brought with the assistance of the liberal election and campaign finance reform organization Free Speech for People.says “No person shall . . . hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, . . . who, having previously taken an oath . . . as an officer of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
It's the second such suit to be filed this month. Last week, another group of voters backed by the left-leaning government watchdog CREW filed an action to keep Trump off the ballot in
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