Donald Trump, a former US president, is not permitted to be on Colorado’s primary ballot, according to a ruling made by the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday. The front-runner in the GOP has promised to file an appeal.
Democrats argued in the case that Trump’s engagement in “insurrection” against the US government rendered him ineligible to run for president again, citing a provision of the 14th Amendment that was ratified in 1865 following the Civil War. Democrats have referred to the disturbance at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, as a “insurrection,” despite the fact that no one, not even Trump, has been accused of committing that specific crime.
The Colorado Supreme Court’s four Democratic judges agreed that Trump was ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot, but they postponed their decision until January 4, 2024, pending an appeal.
According to spokesperson Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign responded to the judgement by calling it “completely flawed” and the result of “a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden.”
According to Cheung, “Democrat Party leaders are experiencing a wave of paranoia due to President Trump’s increasing and commanding lead in the polls.” “They are doing everything in their power to prevent American voters from toppling them in November of next year because they have lost faith in the disastrous Biden presidency.”
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The Trump team plans to file an appeal with the US Supreme Court, and Cheung stated that they are “completely confident” that the court will “rule in our favour and finally put an end to these unAmerican lawsuits.”
The demonstration on January 6 was in response to Trump’s accusations that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” and full of anomalies, despite the fact that the election witnessed a large number of mail-in votes and that Democrat Joe Biden received the highest votes ever cast in US history.
Democrats have worked to keep the 45th president from being eligible to run for office ever since. In light of this, numerous activist groups have brought legal challenges in a number of US states, invoking the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection” clause. It was specifically designed to prevent the defeated Confederates from reentering elected office following the 1861–1865 conflict over secession and slavery. It states that a person cannot run for elected office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the US Constitution after taking an oath to support it.
Trump has a 50-point advantage over all other candidates in the polls right now, leading the Republican field for the presidency.
