The case is part of an interlocking set of legal challenges across the country seeking to remove Trump from the ballot under a section of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
DENVER — At a historic hearing Monday, attorneys for a group of voters argued that former president Donald Trump should not appear on Colorado
Trump attorney Scott Gessler in his opening statement rejected the idea that Trump engaged in an insurrection, noting that in the same speech, Trump told his supporters to behave peacefully. First on the stand was Daniel Hodges, a D.C. police officer. An attorney played footage of chaotic scenes from Hodges’s body camera that included people attempting to yank his riot baton away from him and crowd members accusing him of betraying his duties by trying to keep them out of the Capitol. After each clip, Hodges detailed what had happened to him, saying that in one scuffle, a man grabbed his face and used his thumb to try to gouge his eye out.
Ratified in 1868, the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed civil rights and the protection of the law to all Americans, including those who were formerly enslaved. In addition, its lesser-known Section 3 barred people from holding office if they had sworn an oath to the Constitution and then gone on to engage in an insurrection or aided or comforted the nation’s enemies.
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