Former President Donald Trump has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that removed him from the state’s 2024 primary and presidential ballots under the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment.
The decision has been put on hold pending appeals, and there is mounting pressure for the Supreme Court to settle whether Trump can be disqualified from holding public office.
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Trump’s attorneys wrote, “In our system of ‘government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people,’ Colorado’s ruling is not and cannot be correct.”
The National Republican Senatorial Committee wrote the Supreme Court, that, “Even if the Colorado Supreme Court were correct that President Trump cannot take office on Inauguration Day, that court had no basis to hold that he cannot run for office.”
Colorado Justice Carlos Samour wrote in his dissent, “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.”
“Even if we are convinced that a candidate committed horrible acts in the past — dare I say, engaged in insurrection — there must be procedural due process before we can declare that individual disqualified from holding public office,” he continued.
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