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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson grills Trump lawyer’s claim that Jan. 6 was “not an insurrection”

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson grilled Trump lawyer Jonathan Mitchell over his claim that the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was not an insurrection.

The court heard arguments in the appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring him from the state’s primary ballot.

The Colorado court concluded that the violence at the Capitol on January 6 to halt the count of electoral votes "qualified as an insurrection".

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