Florida judge rejects 14th Amendment challenge to Trump candidacy
A lawsuit brought in a Fort Lauderdale court to pose a 14th Amendment challenge to President Donald Trump's run for a second term in office was dismissed on Thursday by Judge Robin Rosenberg. The Obama-appointed judge determined that the plaintiff in the case had no standing to bring it.
"Plaintiffs lack standing to challenge Defendant's qualifications for seeking the Presidency," she said, going on to say that "the injuries alleged" by the plaintiffs stemming from the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, "are no cognizable and not particular to them," The Palm Beach Post reported.
Rosenberg continued in the ruling that "an individual citizen does not have standing to challenge whether another individual is qualified to hold public office."
The lawsuit was filed last week and was quickly dismissed by Rosenberg. While she did not determine whether or not the 14th Amendment could be used in the case, she did say that Boyton Beach attorney Lawrence Caplan, along with two others, had no business bringing the challenge.
Caplan previously claimed that "The 14th Amendment is very clear that you do not need a conviction. You need to be accused and obviously there has to be a rationale for the accusation. I read the amendment," he said, "and I read the facts of the indictment, and they match very closely."