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DENVER — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used \u201cinsurrection\u201d clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

The lawyers made the argument in a filing posted Monday by a Colorado court in\u00a0the most significant\u00a0of a series of challenges to Trump’s candidacy under the\u00a0Civil War-era clause in the 14th Amendment. The challenges rest on Trump’s attempts to\u00a0overturn his 2020 loss\u00a0to Democrat Joe Biden and his role leading up to the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt no time do Petitioners argue that President Trump did anything other than engage in either speaking or refusing to speak for their argument that he engaged in the purported insurrection,\u201d wrote attorney Geoffrey Blue.<\/p>\n

Trump also will argue that the clause doesn’t apply to him because \u201cthe Fourteenth Amendment applies to one who \u2018engaged in insurrection or rebellion,\u2019 not one who only \u2018instigated\u2019 any action,\u201d Blue wrote.<\/p>\n

The former president’s lawyers also said the challenge should be dismissed because he is not yet a candidate under the meaning of Colorado election law, which they contend isn’t intended to settle constitutional disputes.<\/p>\n

The motion under Colorado’s anti-SLAPP law, which shields people from lawsuits that harass them for behavior protected by the First Amendment, will be the first of the 14th Amendment challenges filed in multiple states to be considered in open court. It was filed late Friday and posted by the court Monday.<\/p>\n

Denver District Judge Sarah B. Wallace has scheduled a hearing on the motion for Oct. 13. A hearing on the constitutional issues will come on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n

Whatever Wallace rules, the issue is likely to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, which has never heard a case on the provision of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868, three years after the Civil War ended. The clause has only been used a handful of times.<\/p>\n

Section Three of the amendment bars from office anyone who once took an oath to uphold the Constitution but then \u201cengaged\u201d in \u201cinsurrection or rebellion\u201d against it. Its initial intent was to prevent former Confederate officials from becoming members of Congress and taking over the government.<\/p>\n

Trump’s contention that he is protected by freedom of speech mirrors his defense in\u00a0criminal cases\u00a0charging him for his role in the Jan. 6 attack. There, too, he argues he was simply trying to bring attention to what he believed was an improper election — even though\u00a0dozens of lawsuits\u00a0challenging the results had already been rejected.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors in those cases and some legal experts have noted that Trump’s offenses go beyond speech, to acts such as trying to organize slates of fake electors that Congress could have recognized to make him president again.<\/p>\n

The criminal cases have already bled into the 14th Amendment challenge in Colorado. On Friday, Wallace issued an order\u00a0barring threats and intimidation\u00a0in the case after the plaintiffs noted that Trump has targeted lawyers and witnesses in the criminal proceedings against him.<\/p>\n

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