Hi there – we’re Noah Bookbinder (President), Donald Sherman (Chief Counsel) and Nikhel Sus (Director of Strategic Litigation) with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-partisan ethics watchdog organization based in DC. Tomorrow, we will be at the Supreme Court as part of the legal team representing the voters challenging Trump’s eligibility to be on the presidential primary ballot in the case Trump v. Anderson, et al. Here’s the proof: https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1754958181174763641.

Donald Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021 bar him from presidential primary ballots under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Section 3 bars anyone from holding office if they swore an “oath . . . to support the Constitution of the United States” as a federal or state officer and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution. It was written to ensure that anyone who engages in insurrectionist activity is not eligible to join – or lead – the very government they attempted to overthrow. Trump does not need to be found guilty of an insurrection to be disqualified from holding office.

We believe that disqualifying Trump as a presidential candidate is a matter not of partisan politics, but of Constitutional obligation. Rule of law and faith in the judicial system must be protected, and in defending the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, we are working to defend American democracy.

Ask us anything!

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Our social media: https://twitter.com/CREWcrew, https://www.facebook.com/citizensforethics, https://www.instagram.com/citizensforethics/, https://bsky.app/profile/crew.bsky.social/, https://www.threads.net/@citizensforethics
Our Supreme Court brief filed in response to Trump’s arguments: https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240126115645084_23-719-Anderson-Respondents-Merits-Brief.pdf
CREW: The case for Donald Trump’s disqualification under the 14th Amendment https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/donald-trumps-disqualification-from-office-14th-amendment/

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9 comments

  2. If the court rules in your favor, what do you expect to happen in other states?

  3. You guys are the real American patriots, keep up the good fight

    Guess my question is, do you think there’s a good chance the supreme Court will uphold the decision?

  4. Congrats on the victory in Colorado and hope you win again at the supreme court.

    My question is How long would the decision take and would it be reflected across all 50 states for primary and general.

  5. My leading concern with conservatives on the Supreme Court will be the arguments posited by Trump and amicus briefs by Republicans which point to the 14th Amendment, Section 5, stating:

    “Congress shall have the power to enforce the provisions of this article.”

    Although other amendments carry similar wording, the disqualification element of 14.3 will invoke an analysis of due process and whether states can meet this bar of due process versus Congress.

    It seems to me, as flawed as it is, that is their most likely procedural offramp here if they were to overturn Colorado.

    Since it will inevitably be brought up, what are the best arguments against that?

  7. Being a layperson with legal arguments, is there a backup plan should the supreme court base its findings on political leanings and not the basis of law?

  8. One argument P01135809’s “lawyer” are making is that the POTUS is not an “Officer of the United States”. Are you going to mention the fact that his “lawyers” argued the opposite in their attempt to have his RICO case in Georgia moved to Federal Court?

  9. Anyone with any common sense knows that Trump has no loyalty to the Republican Party, the United States, or the citizens. There is only room enough in in his heart for himself. Everything else is disposable only to be used to obtain his needs and wants. That he is a criminal is not in question. Kind of feel it is like the mother that brings a Pediphile home to live with her family, what do you think will happen? So, he shouldn’t be allowed to run, but likely will be allowed to. What a mess.

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