Minnesota lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from ballot under 14th amendment

Petition argues that Trump's activities to overturn 2020 election, including those on 6 January, amount to engaging in insurrection

A group of Minnesota voters filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in their state, escalating the effort to disqualify the former president from running based on untested constitutional language that prohibits anyone who has engaged in insurrection" from holding office.

The voters are being represented by Free Speech for People, a left-leaning group that has aggressively been pushing to remove Trump from the ballot in several states. A similar lawsuit was filed in Colorado last week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, another watchdog group.

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