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Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman Friday scoffed at the latest argument against banning Donald Trump from presidential ballots in Colorado and Maine. In both states, the former President Donald Trump was disqualified under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment, although the Colorado case currently rests on Supreme Court action. Trump’s legal team has argued that Section 5 mandates Congress enforce the amendment, not the state officials who have considered the legal challenges, citing the text, “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions …

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