Former AG's support Trump and file brief with Supreme Court

Three former GOP attorneys general, including Bill Barr, file brief siding with Trump in Supreme Court 14th Amendment 'insurrection' case

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in former President Donald Trump's challenge against the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that he is barred from appearing on that state's primary election ballot under the "insurrection" clause of Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.

On Thursday, three former GOP U.S. attorneys general filed a brief with the Supreme Court in support of Trump's position that the 14th Amendment's "insurrection" clause doesn't apply to the president and therefore can't be used to bar him from state ballots, Breitbart reported.

Those three former attorneys general include Edwin Meese, who served under Ronald Reagan, Michael Mukasey, who served under George W. Bush, and Bill Barr, who served under Trump but is certainly otherwise no longer a supporter of his former boss. They were joined by constitutional law professors Steven Calabresi and Gary Lawson, along with the conservative advocacy group Citizens United.

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