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On September 6, 2023, the Fulton County case against Donald Trump kept tightening while a new Colorado challenge tried to make his ballot problems even bigger.
September 6 delivered another ugly day in Trump-world: the Georgia election case moved toward trial in a way that kept his co-defendants boxed in, while a fresh Colorado lawsuit sought to use the Constitution’s insurrection clause to knock him off the ballot. Together, they showed the former president’s post-2020 legal mess was no longer a single indictment but a growing pile of politically damaging problems with real procedural momentum.
The through-line here is simple: Trump’s 2024 campaign was being forced to spend more time and money reacting to courts than talking about voters. And every new filing made the same argument in a new jurisdiction: this wasn’t just hardball politics, it was a documented attempt to overturn an election.
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Trump filed a not-guilty plea and waived his Sept. 6 Fulton County arraignment, staying out of court while Judge Scott McAfee went ahead with other Trump-case proceedings. The hearing also included McAfee’s skepticism about trying all 19 defendants together.
Six Colorado voters filed a lawsuit on Sept. 6, 2023, seeking to keep Donald Trump off the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.