In September, a lawsuit was filed in Colorado seeking to use the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to keep former President Donald Trump off the state's 2024 ballot, as my colleague Jeff Charles reported.

He wrote:

....Six voters in Colorado have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Denver to disqualify the former president from being included on the ballot if he wins the Republican presidential nomination.

This move is part of a larger push to use Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment to keep Trump from winning the presidency.

Six voters in Colorado filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's election ballots because of his role in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

Their suit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in Denver, contends that Trump should be disqualified from running in future elections under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which states that no person shall hold any office if they "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" after having taken an oath to support the Constitution.

The group called on the court to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot and declare that it would be "improper" and "a breach or neglect of duty" for Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, to allow his name to appear on any future primary or general election ballots.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and several law firms filed the lawsuit on behalf of the six voters — four Republicans and two unaffiliated.

A Colorado judge ruled on Friday against the Trump legal team's second attempt to argue it should be thrown out:

In her 24-page ruling, Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace rejected Trump’s argument that matters of ballot eligibility are limited to Congress, not the courts. Wallace also opposed Trump’s argument that state election officials cannot invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

“The Court holds that states can, and have, applied Section 3 pursuant to state statues without federal enforcement legislation,” Wallace wrote.

Wallace’s ruling comes just days before the trial is slated to start Oct. 30.

The first argument by Trump's attorneys, filed earlier in October, was based on the freedom of speech found in the First Amendment:

Earlier this month, Wallace rejected a separate attempt by Trump’s legal team to dismiss the case, ruling that his objections on free-speech grounds did not apply.

For the moment, the issue will stay at the state level, with similar suits working their way through the courts in both Minnesota and Michigan. Earlier in October, the U. S. Supreme Court said it would not take up a separate case seeking to use the 14th Amendment to bar Trump from the presidential ballot, which was brought by a little-known 2024 Republican presidential candidate. We'll keep you in the loop on developments on the ongoing cases.