On Monday, the Colorado judge overseeing a challenge to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot refused to step down from the case after donating to numerous anti-Republican PACs.
The lawsuit, filed by the left-wing donor backed organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), seeks to remove Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, alleging he took an oath to the Constitution and then engaged in “insurrection” by encouraging the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace, an appointee of Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, began the trial Monday saying that she has “no specific memory” of the donations.
“Prior to yesterday, I was not cognizant of this organization or its mission,” Wallace said. “It has always been my practice, whether I was entirely successful or not, to make contributions to individuals, not PACs.”
She assured litigants that she has “formed no opinion whether the events of Jan. 6 constituted an insurrection.”
Wallace donated $100 on Oct. 15, 2022 to the Colorado Turnout Project, a PAC that was formed to oppose Republicans who “refused to condemn the political extremists who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,” according to Federal Election Commission data.
Wallace also has earmarked close to $1,500 in other ActBlue donations for Democrats since 2016, including $100 to Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign on Nov. 10, 2022, per FEC data.
Trump’s lawyer, former Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, said during his opening statement Monday that the lawsuit was “anti-democratic” and a “case of lawfare that seeks to interfere with the presidential election.”
Last week, Wallace tossed Trump’s effort to have the case dismissed, rejecting his claim that Congress determines ballot eligibility, not the courts. She also rejected an earlier effort to have the case dismissed on First Amendment grounds.
Umm – if she has ‘formed no opinion’ regarding whether or not J6 was an “insurrection” how can she realistically make a valid determination of whether or not DJT engaged in that? She flat out needs to recuse herself. Prove me wrong.
A judge who is heavily compromised by donating to the Democrat party has no business over seeing this trial. This is all Banana Republic stuff….Where is the Supreme court in all of this? Can’t they step in and shut all of these phony indictments down.
To deny Trump to campaign, deny Free Speech
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What a bunch of garbage! This judge should recuse herself. What is the matter with judges who do not know how to do their job?
Congress needs to impeach judges noth at the State and Federal levels. Justice is suppose to be blind. Chief Justice Roberts declared there are no Republican or Democrat judges. BS what an idiotic statement. Brain dead Justices of the Supreme Court. Fie.
Sarah doesn’t get the cash if she doesn’t help in the case against Trump, that is why she won’t recuse!