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      Members of Mi Familia Vota​ demonstrated in Denver, Colorado, on January 6, 2023

      Jan. 6 Rally Reminds Public That 'Trump Is Disqualified' From Running for Office

      "Secretaries of state now have a duty to uphold the Constitution and protect our democracy by ensuring Trump is barred from the ballot," one campaigner argued, pointing to the 14th Amendment.

      Jessica Corbett
      Jan 06, 2023

      Two years after supporters of former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" stormed the U.S. Capitol, demonstrators gathered in Colorado on Friday to remind the American people—especially election officials—that "Trump is disqualified" from running for public office under Section 3 of the 14 Amendment to the Constitution.

      Since January 6, 2021, some elected officials and advocacy groups have drawn attention to that section of the amendment, which bars from office anyone who has taken an oath to support the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion," to call for excluding Trump and some congressional Republicans from government.

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      Members of the House January 6 committee conduct a hearing

      Final Jan. 6 Report Urges Congress to Consider Barring Trump From Ever Holding Office Again

      "None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him," the 845-page report concludes.

      Jake Johnson
      Dec 23, 2022

      The House select committee tasked with investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final report late Thursday, drawing from hundreds of witness interviews and a vast trove of documentary evidence to make the case that former President Donald Trump was the primary cause of the deadly insurrection and the failed attempt to overthrow the government.

      "In the committee's hearings, we presented evidence of what ultimately became a multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election," reads the panel's report, which spans nearly 850 pages. "That evidence has led to an overriding and straightforward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him."

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