Efforts to use the Constitution’s “insurrection” clause to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again for the White House are turning to Minnesota with oral arguments before the state Supreme Court
FILE - The Minnesota State Supreme Court Building is shown in this Jan. 10, 2020, photo in St. Paul, Minn. Efforts to use the Constitution's"insurrection" clause to prevent former President Donald Trump from running again for the White House are turnng to Minnesota with oral arguments before the state Supreme Court. Thursday's hearing will unfold as a trial in a similar case plays out in Colorado. ST. PAUL, Minn.
Trump’s lawyers acknowledged in their filings that the question of whether he “is suited to hold the Presidency has been the defining political controversy of our national life” for the last several years. They’ve also argued that while the events of Jan. 6 devolved into a riot, they were not an insurrection in the constitutional sense.
"The riot that occurred at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was terrible. The January 6 rioters entered the Capitol for a few hours and fought with police. But as awful as the melee was, and as disturbing as the rioters' actions were, it was not a war upon the United States," they"Ultimately, Congress counted the electoral votes early the next morning.
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