Disgraced former President Trump’s lawyers took advantage of what’s called a “snap removal” and on Thursday removed the case brought against him by CREW and six Colorado voters seeking to disqualify him from the 2024 ballot under Section III of the 14th Amendment, a loophole he was able to exploit as his (likely very much nominal) co-defendant Dem Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold had not accepted service of the complaint yet, Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog reports.

Hasen’s guy Derek Muller is skeptical it’ll stay in federal court given that Griswold has not consented yet, however he sees the case overall as a long shot given that it’s too early since Trump hasn’t yet actually qualified for the ballot yet (he will) and a whole bunch of other reasons very deep in the weeds we could spend hours parsing out and distilling so how about just click the links instead.

In the political world this shows that Trump’s minions were at the ready, moving more or less immediately to put out a fire. Are they going to be able to do it in dozens of more states, all of them with differing interpretations of, procedures for adjudicating, and statutes dealing with Section III of the 14th? How many more lawyers is he going to have to hire and pay low four figures an hour, every hour that they’re working on this while he’s also defending himself from 91 felony counts in four different jurisdictions not to mention at least three major civil lawsuits? Should be fun to watch.