Trump’s trials: Major civil, criminal and constitutional case developments

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A judge in Colorado confirmed the feeling of many Americans when she ruled Friday, after hearing a week’s worth of evidence, that by inciting the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection against the country.

But Colorado District Judge Sarah Wallace said that the “insurrectionist ban” in the Civil War-era 14th Amendment, which says American officials who take an oath to support the Constitution are banned from future office if they “engaged in insurrection,” does not apply to presidents.

Expect appeals, potentially to the US Supreme Court, but Wallace’s is the third court to allow Trump to remain on the state’s 2024 primary ballot after judges in Minnesota and Michigan also rejected the insurrectionist ban argument.

The democratic reality of the American system is that much of the country, uninspired by the opposition, is perfectly willing to vote for a man who worked so hard to subvert a presidential election.

The next year is going to be a juggling act for the country, trying to keep up with both the pivotal presidential campaign and the many, many trials featuring the Republican front-runner, his personal actions, his officials actions, his incitement of the January 6 rioters and his overt attempt to overturn the election he lost.

This past week was a busy one in the courts, and not just in Colorado.

Trump wants cameras in federal election interference trial – Trump recently officially asked Judge Tanya Chutkan – the federal judge in Washington, DC, who is overseeing the election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith – to allow cameras to televise the proceedings.

Smith has…