Lawsuit alleging Trump fomented insurrection adds momentum to legal effort to block him from 2024 presidential ballot

 With the White House in the background, President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. A judge on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, set a March 4, 2024, trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting a defense request to push back the case by years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

With the White House in the background, then-President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Another attempt to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot on allegations that he fomented and plotted an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, has cropped up, this time in the form of a sprawling lawsuit from an organization in Minnesota representing voters, the state’s secretary and a onetime Minnesota Supreme Court justice.

The 84-page lawsuit was filed Tuesday by an organization known as Free Speech for the People. It contends that Trump is disqualified under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution from holding office due to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election from November of that year through Jan. 6, 2021, when he urged supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., to “take back” the country.

A steady drumbeat of these complaints is now building: a similar complaint was filed in Colorado by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, last week.

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