Posted on Oct 25, 2023
Voters barred from deposing Trump days before trial to remove him from ballot in Colorado
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Second Judicial District Judge Sarah Wallace’s succinct response to those voters stated merely that “ordering a deposition in these expedited proceedings, at this late juncture, is neither feasible nor appropriate.”
The petitioners, a group of Republicans and one politically unaffiliated voter, are represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, and they asked the court to depose Trump for the sake of preserving trial testimony. They argued that early on he had been identified as a potential witness in the case that aims to disqualify the former president from appearing on the state’s ballot in 2024. The voters allege Trump violated Section III of the Fourteenth Amendment, a constitutional provision that prohibits a person from holding office, who, in short, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. government or gave aid and comfort to its enemies.
The petitioners, a group of Republicans and one politically unaffiliated voter, are represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, and they asked the court to depose Trump for the sake of preserving trial testimony. They argued that early on he had been identified as a potential witness in the case that aims to disqualify the former president from appearing on the state’s ballot in 2024. The voters allege Trump violated Section III of the Fourteenth Amendment, a constitutional provision that prohibits a person from holding office, who, in short, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. government or gave aid and comfort to its enemies.
Voters barred from deposing Trump days before trial to remove him from ballot in Colorado
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Donald Trump
Voting
Election 2024
Republicans
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The last time Congress enforced Section III was in 1919 when lawmakers barred the socialist congressman Victor Berger from serving after he was accused of providing aid to Germany in World War I. Berger was seated in a later Congress after the U.S. Supreme Court acquitted him of espionage on grounds of judicial bias. But for the states, bids to disqualify insurrectionists have been rare and mostly unsuccessful, though CREW’s efforts representing three voters in New Mexico in 2022 were an exception. There, CREW led a lawsuit that resulted in former Otero county commissioner and convicted rioter Cuoy Griffin losing his right to ever again serve in office because of his actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6."
..."The last time Congress enforced Section III was in 1919 when lawmakers barred the socialist congressman Victor Berger from serving after he was accused of providing aid to Germany in World War I. Berger was seated in a later Congress after the U.S. Supreme Court acquitted him of espionage on grounds of judicial bias. But for the states, bids to disqualify insurrectionists have been rare and mostly unsuccessful, though CREW’s efforts representing three voters in New Mexico in 2022 were an exception. There, CREW led a lawsuit that resulted in former Otero county commissioner and convicted rioter Cuoy Griffin losing his right to ever again serve in office because of his actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6."
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