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Scott Gessler, an attorney for Donald Trump, was peppered with questions in a Colorado case that could keep the former president off the state’s ballot. During oral arguments on Wednesday, a justice for the Colorado Supreme Court asked Gessler how it was not “absurd” to claim the Constitution’s framers would have allowed an insurrectionist to be president. Gessler has previously argued that the president is not an “officer,” so the language of the 14th Amendment does not apply. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office? “How is it not absurd to say anybody who engaged in an insurrection …