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If petitioners prevail, the case could provide a playbook for other states to keep Trump off the ballot, and maybe keep him from getting enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination.

If petitioners prevail, the case could provide a playbook for other states to keep Trump off the ballot, and maybe keep him from getting enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination.

Today's Water Cooler

The trial in the Colorado ballot challenge that could bar former President Donald Trump from running in the state opened with scenes of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The 14th Amendment disqualification trial against former President Donald Trump continued Tuesday in Colorado, where a group of voters are trying to keep him off the 2024 ballot based on the Constitution’s post-Civil War “insurrectionist ban.”

A witness for the plaintiffs says Trump played a key “role in orchestrating, inciting and preserving the attack on the Capitol” on Jan. 6.

Testimony in a trial seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the Colorado ballot centered on his history of violent rhetoric.

A professor who is an expert in national security has testified that then-President Donald Trump could have mobilized the National Guard and federal law enforcement to protect the U.S. Capitol once violence broke out on Jan 6, 2021. The testimony came Tuesday as a Colorado case to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot moved into a new phase. William Banks is a Syracuse University law professor who was called by lawyers for the Colorado voters trying to bar Trump from the 2024 ballot unde...

A professor who is an expert in national security has testified that then-President Donald Trump could have mobilized the National Guard and federal law enforcement to protect the U.S. Capitol once violence broke out on Jan 6, 2021. The testimony came Tuesday as a Colorado case to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot moved into a new phase. William Banks is a Syracuse University law professor who was called by lawyers for the Colorado voters trying to bar Trump from the 2024 ballot unde...

The attorneys attempting to paint former President Trump as an insurrectionist in order to get him banned from the ballot in Colorado in 2024 focused their case Tuesday on signals he sent to extremist groups who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Attorney Eric Olson, representing the plaintiffs, relied on expert testimony from an extremism…