The Colorado Supreme Court has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, citing the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
The ruling is on hold pending Trump’s appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The decision, which only applies to Colorado, has potential to impact the 2024 presidential campaign. (Trending: FBI Bribery Probe Caught Joe Biden’s Brother On Tape)
Trump’s campaign plans to appeal, while allies have criticized the decision.
The court found that the insurrectionist ban applies to the presidency and that Trump engaged in insurrection.
“President Trump did not merely incite the insurrection,” the majority wrote.
“Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding that Vice President (Mike) Pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling Senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes.”
“These actions constituted overt, voluntary, and direct participation in the insurrection.”
“We conclude that the foregoing evidence, the great bulk of which was undisputed at trial, established that President Trump engaged in insurrection,” they added.
“President Trump’s direct and express efforts, over several months, exhorting his supporters to march to the Capitol to prevent what he falsely characterized as an alleged fraud on the people of this country were indisputably overt and voluntary.”
“President Trump’s speech on January 6 was not protected by the First Amendment.”
The decision has sparked controversy and legal action, with implications for Trump’s candidacy and the broader political landscape.
“The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed decision tonight and we will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated.
“We have full confidence that the U.S. Supreme Court will quickly rule in our favor and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits.”
“Today’s ruling attempting to disqualify President Trump from the Colorado ballot is nothing but a thinly veiled partisan attack,” House Speaker Mike Johnson stated.
“Regardless of political affiliation, every citizen registered to vote should not be denied the right to support our former president and the individual who is the leader in every poll of the Republican primary,” he added.
“We trust the U.S. Supreme Court will set aside this reckless decision and let the American people decide the next President of the United States.”
“Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment,” Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on X.
“In the absence of an insurrection-related conviction, I would hold that a request to disqualify a candidate under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is not a proper cause of action under Colorado’s election code,” Chief Justice Brian Boatright wrote.
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