New Mexico, Minnesota Oklahoma sued to block traitor from state ballots

John Anthony Castro, a 2024 Republican Presidential candidate, has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver. The lawsuit was filed on Friday, Sept. 8. It looks to remove Trump from the New Mexico Republican primary election and the 2024 presidential ballot in the state. [KOAT teevee]

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Some prominent Minnesotans filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking the state Supreme Court to keep former President Donald Trump's name off the 2024 Minnesota presidential primary and general election ballot. The lawsuit was filed by a group called Free Speech For People, on behalf of several Minnesota voters including former DFL Secretary of State Joan Growe and former state Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson. [MPR News]

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The write-in candidate John Anthony Castro claims Trump provided aid or comfort to those who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection. The suit is filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Trump and the Secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board are named. [KJRH teevee]

The silver lining on this Fourteenth Amendment issue, however, is that I have not as yet seen one single article that has raised serious question about the applicability of Section 3 to the former president.

— @judgeluttig (@judgeluttig) September 10, 2023

This excerpt from @mckaycoppins' Romney book is pretty ugly for McConnell. This is about the *first* Trump impeachment. https://t.co/I7LW3GtRA9 pic.twitter.com/QqZaGivdni

— Jim Newell (@jim_newell) September 13, 2023

Did you know that at least eight public officials have been formally adjudicated to be disqualified and barred from public office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment since its ratification in 1868? https://t.co/d4c2NTYKfa

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 12, 2023