Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s eligibility on the 2024 Republican primary ballots are underway in more than a dozen states. Each seeks the same result as this week’s historic decision by the Colorado Supreme Court: to disqualify the former president from that state’s ballot.
The lawsuits, filed by a variety of plaintiffs and legal groups, all focus on a little-used clause of the 14th Amendment that dates back to the Civil War era, and disqualifies from office anyone who engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States.
They argue that Trump’s actions around the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters swarmed the Capitol building in an attempt to prevent Congress from formalizing Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, constituted an insurrection.
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