DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used “insurrection” clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech.
The lawyers made the argument in a filing posted Monday by a Colorado court in the most significant of a series of challenges to Trump’s candidacy under the Civil War-era clause in the 14th Amendment. The challenges rest on Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden and his role leading up to the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Difference here is this isn’t a lawsuit that they’re bringing, they’re frantically trying to defend against the case brought against Trump. Having a bad defense isn’t really something you can disbar a lawyer for, unlike filing a bad lawsuit. But this is Trump we’re talking about, I’m sure he’ll find a way to get his lawyers to commit perjury or some other ethics violation before the case is over or else they’ll be replaced with lawyers who will.
How anyone even remotely wants to work with him boggles the mind. It really is a cult.
They probably hope they’re going to make a name for themselves… and then they get hired and see all the evidence they’re up against (which I’m sure is significantly more than we the public have seen).
There seems to be an unending queue of people who think that this time Trump’ll pay up.
Fool me once…