The Colorado Supreme Court, comprised entirely of Democratic-appointed justices, has made a controversial decision to exclude former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot.
This move, based on the 14th Amendment’s Section 3, disqualifying individuals involved in insurrection from holding federal office, has sparked intense criticism, seen as a partisan maneuver.
The justices involved have faced scrutiny due to their backgrounds, with accusations of harassment and discrimination. (Trending: Judge Announces Historic Ruling In Jeffrey Epstein Case)
The decision has drawn fierce opposition, particularly from conservatives, who view it as judicial overreach and a politicization of the legal system, potentially impacting Trump’s eligibility in other states and the broader presidential election.
Here are the four justices facing controversy over the ruling:
• Justice Richard L. Gabriel: “A Yale University and University of Pennsylvania Law School alumnus, Gabriel was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court in June 2015. His tenure has not been without controversy. In 2021, he was accused of harassment by a female law clerk according to the Denver Post.”
• Justice Melissa Hart: “A Harvard Law School graduate, Hart joined the Colorado Supreme Court in December 2017. Before her appointment, she was a professor at the University of Colorado Law School. Hart was implicated in a discrimination lawsuit filed by a black job applicant at the Supreme Court, which was eventually dismissed, according to the Daily Mail. Michele Brown had alleged that Hart and other judges were guilty of racial and age discrimination for not selecting her for a rules attorney position.”
• Justice Monica Márquez: “A Stanford University and Yale Law School graduate, Márquez made history as the first Latina and openly gay justice on the Colorado Supreme Court with her appointment in 2010. Her decision in the Trump ballot case has been criticized as being influenced more by political leanings than legal merit.”
• Justice William W. Hood III: “A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Hood was appointed in January 2014. The Post Millennial was quick to point out that every Colorado justice involved in the decision to disqualify Trump from the ballot is an alumnus of a prestigious East Coast universities.”
“Democrat Party leaders are in a state of paranoia over the growing, dominant lead President Trump has amassed in the polls. They have lost faith in the failed Biden presidency and are now doing everything they can to stop the American voters from throwing them out of office next November,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung wrote.
Justice Carlos Samour wrote after the ruling, “The decision to bar former President Donald J. Trump — by all accounts the current leading Republican presidential candidate (and reportedly the current leading overall presidential candidate) — from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot flies in the face of the due process doctrine.”
“This can’t possibly be the outcome the framers intended,” he wrote.
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