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A Colorado judge allowed Donald Trump to appear on the state’s presidential ballot despite finding that he engaged in insurrection in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The ruling came in response to a lawsuit seeking to disqualify Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Trump called the lawsuit an “outrageous attempt to disenfranchise millions of voters by getting us thrown off the ballot,” and called the watchdog group that brought the case a “bunch of losers”.
Ex- U.S. Attorney Harry Litman said the judge's ruling “had to happen” to set the stage for the Supreme Court to take up the case.
Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks argued that that part of the ruling is “wrong on the law”.
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