ST.PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota group petitioned the state Supreme Court to block former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot. The petition asks the Court to invoke that rarely used “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Trump is under indictment on four courts in 91 criminal counts for his attempted 2021 coup to stay in office even after losing a re-election campaign. Among the signatories:
> Joan Growe, a Democrat, former Minnesota Secretary of State Joan Growe, 1975-1999.
> Paul Anderson, a Republican, former state Supreme Court justice, 1994-2013.
The petition, which runs 84 pages, is supported by a Massachusetts organization, Free Speech for People, which is organizing nationally to keep Trump off state ballots. The organization claims to be non-partisan. The first such petition was filed earlier in Colorado.
Growe. Former Minnesota secretary of state.
Anderson. Former Minnesota Supreme Court justice.
Verbatim
14th Amendment, Section 3: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”