Legal Battles Mount to Keep Trump off 2024 Presidential Ballots

A judge has rejected three more attempts by former President Donald Trump and the Colorado GOP to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to block him from the 2024 presidential ballot in Colorado based on the 14th Amendment's "insurrectionist ban." The judge's rulings are a setback for Trump, who still has a pending motion to throw out the lawsuit but now faces an unprecedented trial this month. The lawsuit, filed by a liberal watchdog group on behalf of Republican and unaffiliated voters, raises novel legal questions about how the 14th Amendment could apply to Trump. The judge rejected many of Trump's arguments and stated that the question of whether the Colorado Secretary of State has the power to block Trump from the ballot based on the 14th Amendment should be decided at trial.