The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 19, declared Donald Trump ineligible for the 2024 US presidential election due to his role in the attack on the Capitol in Washington in early 2021. It ordered the withdrawal of ballots cast in his name for the 2024 US presidential election Republican primaries in this state, which must take place on March 5, 2024.
By a majority of four of seven justices, the Supreme Court upheld a district judge's November ruling that concluded that Mr. Trump “committed insurrection on January 6, 2021” during the storming of the Capitol 14th Amendment, which was used to assert his ineligibility, was actually applicable to a president, which was not the case in the first instance judgment. On January 6, 2021, hundreds of red-hot Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, the shrine of American democracy, to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's victory.
However, the Colorado Supreme Court stayed its preliminary injunction until January 4, the deadline for certifying Colorado's primary election, pending an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
“If an appeal is filed with the Supreme Court before the expiration of this stay, it will remain in effect and the election official must continue to place President Trump's name on the 2024 primary ballot until she receives an injunction or mandate from the Supreme Court,” it says said the verdict.
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“Undemocratic” decision, according to Trump spokesman
The decision by this court, whose judges were all appointed by Democratic governors, marks the first time in United States history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a candidate for president.
“The Colorado Supreme Court made a completely flawed decision tonight and we will quickly turn to the United States Supreme Court to request a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision,” Donald Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a press release. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called the decision “irresponsible” and nothing less than a “thinly veiled partisan attack.”
“We do not reach these conclusions lightly,” the Colorado court wrote. “We are aware of the extent and severity of the questions being asked of us. We also recognize our solemn duty to enforce the law without fear or favor and without being influenced by public reaction to the decisions the law requires of us,” she adds.
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The historic indictment of Donald Trump on August 1 at the federal level and then on August 14 by the state of Georgia (Southeast) for his allegedly illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election opened a legal debate about his possible suspension .
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The ex-president lost the state of Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and does not need this state to win next year's elections. But there is a risk that other courts and election officials will follow Colorado's lead and exclude it from must-win states.
Numerous measures taken
At the national level, numerous lawsuits have been filed to disqualify the Republican nominee under Article 3. This amendment, passed in 1868 and then aimed at supporters of the Southern Confederacy defeated in the Civil War (1861–1865), excludes all public responsibility for anyone who commits an “insurrection” or “rebellion” after taking an oath to defend the Constitution has accomplished.
Of around fifteen ongoing cases in various states, including two rejected ones in Minnesota and Michigan, the courts in Colorado are the first to declare Donald Trump ineligible.
” We won ! “, Crew responded on social media on Tuesday After the Colorado Supreme Court's decision, he hailed “a great moment for democracy.” This decision “is not only historic and justified, but also necessary to protect the future of democracy in our country,” Crew President Noah Bookbinder added in a statement.
“Mr. Trump acted with the specific intent of inciting political violence and directing it against the Capitol for the purpose of preventing the certification of the election of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden,” trial judge Sarah Wallace said in her decision on November 17th. On the other hand, it held that the 14th Amendment, invoked by the plaintiffs, the anti-corruption citizens group Crew, did not apply to the president, but acknowledged that there were doubts on that point.
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