John,

Today is a big day of milestones for CREW: A year ago today, we represented six Colorado voters in a lawsuit to enforce Donald Trump's constitutional disqualification from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

That was the biggest fight we’d ever taken on—and we gave it our all.

We were building on an important precedent that we set exactly a year before that, on September 6th, 2022, when a New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin to be removed from office, ruling that the January 6th attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin’s participation in it constitutionally disqualified him.

We made history in that case, with Griffin’s disqualification becoming the first time since 1869 that a court disqualified a public official for engaging in insurrection.

Given that precedent, we were hopeful that courts would apply the same standard to Donald Trump. After a week-long evidentiary hearing in district court, and another trial at the Colorado Supreme Court, in December 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court did just that.

Though the Supreme Court ultimately dismissed our lawsuit, the Colorado finding that Trump engaged in insurrection still stands. So do findings in the other states (Maine and Illinois) that considered the facts of the case.

When we brought the case last year, we knew it would not be easy. And despite the dismissal by the Supreme Court, our case made clear that we were not going to let anyone off the hook by ignoring the clear mandate of the Constitution to disqualify insurrectionists.

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Thank you for your support,

CREW