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US Supreme Court strikes down effort to disqualify Trump from Colorado primary election - BBC News | US Supreme Court strikes down effort to disqualify Trump from Colorado primary election - BBC News |
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With the Supreme Court ruling that only Congress - and not individual states - can enforce Section 3 to block a candidate from federal office, at least one Democrat is already paying attention. | |
Maryland lawmaker Jamie Raskin, one of the most vocal anti-Trump voices in Congress, told CNN earlier that he is "working with a number of my colleagues... to revive legislation that we had to set up a process by which we could determine that someone who committed insurrection is disqualified by Section 3". | |
"The House of Representatives already impeached Donald Trump for participating in insurrection by inciting it," he noted. | |
Raskin was one of the Democratic 'impeachment managers' who prosecuted the case in its trial phase before the Senate, which ultimately voted to acquit Trump. | |
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