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HERE WE GO: Florida Attorney Files Legal Challenge Claiming Trump Cannot Be on 2024 Ballot Due to Alleged Involvement in Jan 6 “Insurrection”
The Gateway Pundit ^ | August 27, 2023 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/27/2023 2:45:51 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

A challenge has been filed in a federal court seeking a declaratory relief on the eligibility of President Donald Trump to run in the 2024 Presidential Election.

The petitioner cites Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which disqualifies individuals involved in “insurrections” against the government from running for federal office.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by Lawrence A. Caplan, alleges that Trump is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again due to his alleged involvement in the January 6 “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol.

Caplan claimed he has participated in the last twelve presidential elections and is a legal resident of Florida. He is also a member of various state bars and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, asserting that this gives him standing in the matter

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: election2024; florida; lawrenceacaplan; trump
This is not surprising. I expect a lot of these lawsuits will be filled. This is the first so we'll see how this is resolved.
1 posted on 08/27/2023 2:45:51 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Who do they fear most? If he really did this, why would anyone vote for him?


2 posted on 08/27/2023 2:47:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Didn’t the courts already rule on this? Specifically, they said that the rules for a federal office holder don’t apply to POTUS.

So sick of this sh*t.

3 posted on 08/27/2023 2:49:46 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

😂 how embarrassing for this guy.


4 posted on 08/27/2023 2:50:27 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Why bother with the trial?
Just remove him from the ballots now, right? It what other banana republics do all the time

We need rope and trees; these traitors who have betrayed us, stolen our freedom from us, our children and grandchildren deserve nothing less


5 posted on 08/27/2023 2:50:41 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Section 5, the closing of the 14th Amendment:

“The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”

Oh.

Congress, not Scotus, not the states were to enforce the 14th. But, such limitations on our judicial masters went out the window long ago.


6 posted on 08/27/2023 2:51:42 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Secret Agent Man
The Democrat/Communist Party fears a loss of power from a formidible threat that they must neutralize or eliminate.
There is nothing more to it than that.
7 posted on 08/27/2023 2:52:07 PM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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This is not surprising. I expect a lot of these lawsuits will be filled. This is the first so we'll see how this is resolved.

The real concern will be when individual state secretaries keep Trump's name off the ballots, particularly in the mostly Democrat-controlled swing states that he'll need to flip.

8 posted on 08/27/2023 2:52:25 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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Fact from history:
On Nov. 2, 1920, Eugene V. Debs received one million votes in the U.S. presidential election on the Socialist Party ticket while in prison. He was serving a 10 year sentence for his speech in Canton, Ohio protesting World War I which was raging in Europe.

For giving this speech, he was arrested and convicted in federal court under the Espionage Act of 1917. He was his own attorney.


9 posted on 08/27/2023 2:54:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: glennaro

Note no one on that stage has a target on them.


10 posted on 08/27/2023 2:55:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Smart attorney. He knows Trump will be acquitted on the other charges.


11 posted on 08/27/2023 2:56:31 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

That’s what it’s all about. The left is trembling in fear that Trump can be reelected.


12 posted on 08/27/2023 2:56:49 PM PDT by I want the USA back (If genitals don't define gender, how does removing them affirm it? )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

2 days ago:
The Boston Globe
Is Trump disqualified for the N.H. primary? Voters are asking.
“I will be asking the attorney general’s office for their input,” Secretary of State David Scanlan told the Globe.


Trying to use the 14th Amendment that as someone Congress said was guilty of inciting insurrection, he is ineligible——which each separate state can rule upon.

The Dem strategy.


13 posted on 08/27/2023 2:57:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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you got it


14 posted on 08/27/2023 2:59:01 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The crime wear the DC courts and prosecutors who punished people for walking through the capital. The crime wear the CIA and others who had people in the crowd directing the crowd to go in the capital. The crime was the congress from hiding all that evidence. The crime was the media for reporting lies. Trump committed do lies. But if this works the republican party will pay. Many will not vote for a party that stabs Trump in the back.


15 posted on 08/27/2023 3:00:17 PM PDT by poinq
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To: Macho MAGA Man

From january 9th when I heard the term “insurection” over. And over I was confused.

But in hindsight not so much

bravo or whatever.


16 posted on 08/27/2023 3:02:08 PM PDT by algore
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To: Secret Agent Man

A clear, public announcement by Democrat/Communist Party leaders as to who they fear versus those who they regard as nonthreatening to their power.


17 posted on 08/27/2023 3:02:39 PM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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