The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot, saying he is ineligible to be president.
In a stunning and unprecedented decision, the Colorado Supreme Court removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn’t an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”
“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.
“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.”
Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment says officials who take an oath to support the Constitution are banned from future office if they “engaged in insurrection.” But the wording is vague, it doesn’t explicitly mention the presidency, and has only been applied twice since 1919.
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,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Chief Justice Brian Boatright, one of the three dissenters on the seven-member court, wrote that he believes Colorado election law “was not enacted to decide whether a candidate engaged in insurrection,” and said he would have dismissed the challenge to Trump’s eligibility.
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AP: Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state’s ballot under Constitution’s insurrection clause | @negativenull@startrek.website
Washington Post: Donald Trump is barred from Colorado’s 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net
CNBC: Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from 2024 ballot, pauses ruling to allow appeal | @return2ozma
NBC News: Colorado Supreme Court kicks Donald Trump off the state’s 2024 ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution. | 18-24-61-B-17-17-4
CNN: Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot | A Phlaming Phoenix
CNN:Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from 2024 ballot based on 14th Amendment’s ‘insurrectionist ban’ | @Boddhisatva
New York Times: Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules | @silence7@slrpnk.net
Here we go! I guess the SCOTUS is having their hand forced?
CO SC, not SCOTUS. SCOTUS doesn’t have to act
Clarence Thomas is itching to act
Thanks, I want sure. I’m watching from up North.
SCOCO
They don’t need to, it’s very simple… 14th amendment explicitly does not name the president. Unless SCOTUS decides he is an “officer of the United States”.
Trump has not been proven that he:
He tried to plot with people, but no one went through with screwing with the counting of votes. You could try to argue the J6 riots were an armed insurrection, but SCOTUS won’t put Trump as involved.
The previous judge literally ruled that she found that he engaged in insurrection. She was just too afraid to actually cast him off the ballot, because Trump is a mob boss who commands millions of unhinged conspiracy theorists and war-LARPers.
So he was indeed proven to have engaged in insurrection.
No, she ruled that, as a fact, Trump engaged in insurrection. The next court of appeals had to take that statement as fact, they could not dismiss it, nor argue it again. Legally, he factually engaged in insurrection. Trapped.
Far from being cowardly, she fucked him over, hard. And here we see the results! Brilliant legal maneuvering.
I think it was likely both. A tactful retreat so she didn’t have to bear the brunt of his faithful.
That’s the real 4D chess, LOL.
That’s the part Trump is guilty of; the evidence is he aided them.
With money?
There’s actually no way to explicitly not mention something
Appreciate the explanation!