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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”
GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 8/28/2023 | jim hoft

Posted on 08/27/2023 8:48:38 AM PDT by bitt

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.

Below is a transcript from the complaint:

"The facts of this case are undeniably simple. Donald J. Trump served a the 45th President of the United States having won the election in 2016 and was inaugurated on January 20, 2017. He served for four years until he lost the 2020 Presidential Election to Joseph R. Biden, Jr. who took office on January 20, 2021. President Trump chose not to appear at the inauguration of his successor. Having left for his estate in South Florida while the ceremony was taking place…

On January 6, 2021, after giving a speech to a throng on the Ellipse near the Capitol, President Trump exhorted the throng to march to the Capitol and told them that he would be right there with them. After he was finished with his speech, Trump returned to the White House and watched he later events unfold on television. As we are well aware, the throng marched on the Capitol, forced their way into the Capitol building, ransacked the rotunda area, and even made their way into several offices of representatives and senators…

Of note, President Trump had sent out a tweet the day before claiming that “January 6th will be wild”. Trump also later remarked that the insurrectionists who had breached the Capitol were “special” and that “we love you”. He also later remarked that had Vice-President Pence simply done his job and refused to certify the results of the election that everything would have been fine. Not for several hours were the National Guard called in to quell the insurrection as allegedly President Trump refused to do so and had been mesmerized by the events that were taking place on his television at the White House…"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2024ballot; desantis; desantisland; florida; floridaattorney; lawrenceacaplan; trump; trumppersecution
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To: DesertRhino; GOPJ; DoughtyOne; Jim Robinson
This "legal challenge" should be thrown out immediately for making this preposterous claim:

Petitioner has also been a member of the Florida Bar since 1984, the State Bar of California since 1985, the Oregon State Bar since 1997, and is currently a member of the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

SCOTUS has 9 members, not one million.

41 posted on 08/27/2023 9:30:21 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: bitt

There isn’t going yo be a 2024 election so not to worry. 😏


42 posted on 08/27/2023 9:31:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: bitt
This is the objective of the persistent state-run persecution of Trump. The leaders of the Democrat/Communist Party damn-well know all of these charges and indictments are not legally sound and will ultimately go nowhere. Instead, what Democrat/Communist Party leaders are attempting to pull off is to provide states -- especially RINO-governed red states with Trump-hating political leaders -- with a reason (valid or not) to remove Trump from the ballot in both the primary election and in the general election.

Democrat/Communist Party leaders have come to realize that with Trump's growing popularity -- including among portions of the Democrat/Communist Party's base, which scares the hell out of them -- cheating alone will likely not carry them to victory. Their plan now is to supplement cheating (which Democrat/Communists excel at) with eliminating the strongest competitor ... by first attempting to eliminate Trump by removing him from the ballot, then, if that's not enough, by eliminating Trump by any means possible which, in the minds of Democrat/Communists when their iron-fisted power is threatened, can mean anything ... and I do mean anything ... by any way and at any cost possible.

43 posted on 08/27/2023 9:32:36 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Jim Noble

I believe you are wrong....


44 posted on 08/27/2023 9:35:17 AM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: bitt

Right after another major shift towards Trump in Florida. I just pray the judges are straight.


45 posted on 08/27/2023 9:38:34 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Osage Orange

Some judges may be loony enough to rule in favor. Dem or RINO.


46 posted on 08/27/2023 9:43:53 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: bitt

Another waste of taxpayer $.


47 posted on 08/27/2023 9:46:14 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas
We will see. If he doesn’t, then he was peeing in the wind.

who was denied standing simply for being a citizen?

48 posted on 08/27/2023 9:58:03 AM PDT by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: Jim Noble

‘I believe this strategy will be effective and that Trump will not be on the ballot in November 2024.’

perhaps; personally, I believe any pub would lose in 2024, as I think their ceiling is 70 million votes, and I have no reason to think the 159 million turnout of 2020 would be any less...

the lousy electoral system we have has never been more evident; two men averaging 80 years of age, neither of whom have the approval of 40 percent of the electorate, and nobody seems to have any idea of how to replace both of them on the ballots...but should Trump be ousted on the ballot it will be interesting to see a third party run; after all, if he thinks he can win, why would he care about the letter after his name...?

if he shuns a third party try, that’s tantamount to an admission he can’t win...


49 posted on 08/27/2023 9:59:25 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

“No standing.”

When has this stopped them?

Only anticommunist issues have no standing. There are no legal checks and balances against the communist party agenda.


50 posted on 08/27/2023 10:00:09 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: bitt

I’m ready for a voting strike. Everybody should just do as the Chinese dissidents do and “lie flat”.


51 posted on 08/27/2023 10:02:12 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“There isn’t going to be a 2024 election so not to worry. 😏”

Bingo...

We may go through the useless motions, but there will never be a real election in this country again. There will never be a “true” Republican President again even if it appears the play script allowed for one to be elected.

The odds are over 160 million to one Trump will be elected. And if he is both parties will tie his hands so tight he will not be able to do one thing positive. Or they will kill him...

It is over, the Frog has done being boiled. And until we address this reality and accept our own denial nothing productive will ever get done.


52 posted on 08/27/2023 10:16:05 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

It is over, the Frog has done being boiled. And until we address this reality and accept our own denial nothing productive will ever get done.


What are you proposing?


53 posted on 08/27/2023 10:17:48 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

That is true...


54 posted on 08/27/2023 10:19:11 AM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: Jim Noble

Problem is...he was actually acquitted. https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/13/967098840/senate-acquits-trump-in-impeachment-trial-again


55 posted on 08/27/2023 10:20:29 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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allegation

Tell me you’re a five year old without telling ms you’re a five year old.


56 posted on 08/27/2023 10:22:07 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: null and void

“We the People will write him in.”

Some states do not accept this. And those that do will illegally throw them away as “spoiled” ballots.

They already have a plan for this problem if it arises.

We keep expecting them to play by the rules. Reality is they never have and never will.


57 posted on 08/27/2023 10:24:36 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: bitt

Applies only to former Confederates who wanted to run for federal office in the post Civil War era.


58 posted on 08/27/2023 10:24:56 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Openurmind

“We keep expecting them to play by the rules. Reality is they never have and never will.”

Exactly. They are lawless and they are extremely well-organized and well-funded. And our side continually and consistently underestimates our enemies... a recipe for perpetual failure.


59 posted on 08/27/2023 10:29:19 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Who gives a flying monkey-turd what you "believe?"

Your devotion to Trump has turned you from a former believer in freedom, to a tyrant that refuses to tolerate anyone who offers a single non-compliant thought.

60 posted on 08/27/2023 10:31:24 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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